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

Table 3

Mean and Standard deviation (×10⁻²) of 𝐿₂ error for the hazard rate function estimators.

		𝑛=125				𝑛=250
		Mean		Variance		Mean		Variance
Model	% cens	G	MW	G	MW	G	MW	G	MW
A	10	6.00	12.46	0.36	0.67	3.20	8.09	0.08	0.26
	25	5.90	14.04	0.16	0.45	4.95	13.09	0.07	0.30
	50	13.20	20.00	0.38	0.64	13.13	19.33	0.22	0.35
B	10	2.32	8.87	0.04	0.27	1.04	5.51	0.02	0.08
	25	2.64	10.04	0.03	0.34	2.27	8.49	0.02	0.09
	50	8.52	11.87	0.10	0.18	8.93	11.99	0.05	0.09

G: gamma estimator. MW: Müller and Wang 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.