Gamma Kernel Estimators for Density and Hazard Rate of Right-Censored Data

Table 2

Standard deviation (×10⁻²) of 𝐿₂ error for the density function estimators.

		𝑛=125		𝑛=250		𝑛=500		𝑛=1000
Model	% cens	G	LL	G	LL	G	LL	G	LL
A	10	5.67	8.42	4.12	6.97	3.26	5.80	2.99	5.51
	25	6.81	9.96	4.91	8.11	4.06	7.02	3.18	6.115
	50	8.47	1.14	8.30	1.03	7.99	0.99	7.84	0.93
B	10	5.32	11.23	3.51	8.12	2.81	5.39	2.25	3.125
	25	5.30	21.98	4.52	18.6	3.52	14.87	2.64	10.64
	50	6.79	13.72	5.13	8.82	4.07	7.77	3.09	5.12

G: gamma estimator; LL: local linear estimator; Model A: exponential survival times with uniform censoring times; Model B: Weibull survival times with Weibull censoring times. The results are based on 1000 replications.