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Activity Number:	22
Type:	Topic Contributed
Date/Time:	Sunday, August 4, 2013 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor:	Biometrics Section
Abstract - #308278
Title:	Empirical Likelihood and U-Statistics in Survival Analysis
Author(s):	Zhigang Zhang*+ and Yichuan Zhao
Companies:	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Georgia State University
Keywords:	empirical likelihood ; U-statistics ; interval-censored survival data ; regression analysis ; law of large numbers for correlated random variables
Abstract:	When the empirical likelihood approach is applied to U-statistics, some technical and computational problems emerge. In this study we will focus on some theoretical development for tackling such problems. Applications of such methods including regression analysis of interval-censored survival data will be discussed.

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