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      <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JDS</journal-id>
      <journal-title-group>
        <journal-title>Journal of Data Science</journal-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">1680-743X</issn>
      <issn pub-type="ppub">1680-743X</issn>
      <publisher>
        <publisher-name>SOSRUC</publisher-name>
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    <article-meta>
      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">050208</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.6339/JDS.2007.05(2).312
</article-id>
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          <subject>Research Article</subject>
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      <title-group>
        <article-title>Nonparametric Estimation of the Incubation Period of AIDS with Left Truncation and Right Censoring</article-title>
      </title-group>
      <contrib-group>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Onkar Shivraj</surname>
            <given-names>Swami</given-names>
          </name>
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        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_000">University of Delhi</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Chattopadhya</surname>
            <given-names>Debasish</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_001"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_001">National Institute of Communicable Diseases</aff>
        <contrib contrib-type="author">
          <name>
            <surname>Grover</surname>
            <given-names>Gurprit</given-names>
          </name>
          <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_JDS_aff_002"/>
        </contrib>
        <aff id="j_JDS_aff_002">University of Delhi</aff>
      </contrib-group>
      <volume>5</volume>
      <issue>2</issue>
      <fpage>289</fpage>
      <lpage>296</lpage>
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      <abstract>
        <p>Abstract: In the natural history of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type-1 (HIV-1) infection, many studies included the participants who were seropos itive at time of enrollment. Estimation of the unknown times since exposure to HIV-1 in the prevalent cohorts is of primary importance for estimation of the incubation period of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). To estimate incubation period of AIDS we used prior distribution of incubation times, based on a external data as suggested by Bacchetti and Jewell (1991, Biometrics, 47,947-960). In the present study, our estimate was nonpara metric based on a method proposed by Wang, Jewell and Tsai (1986, Annals of Statistics, 14, 1597-1605).</p>
      </abstract>
      <kwd-group>
        <label>Keywords</label>
        <kwd>AIDS</kwd>
        <kwd>incubation period</kwd>
        <kwd>left truncation</kwd>
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