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Censored and truncated data

Censored data point are those whose measured properties are not known precisely, but are known to lie above or below some limiting sensitivity. Truncated data points are those which are missing from the sample altogether due to sensitivity limits.

ASURV
    Astronomy survival analysis for right- and left-censored data including the Kaplan-Meier estimator, several two-sample tests, bivariate correlation measures and linear regressions. Developed for astronomy by E. Feigelson of Penn State University.

Partial correlation for censored data
    A test for partial correlation between three variables, any or all of which are subject to censoring, based on a generalized Kendall's tau.  Developed for astronomy by M. Akritas (Penn State) and J. Siebert (MPI).

Mean & standard deviation
    Maximum likelihood estimation of a censored univariate normal population.  Applied Statistics algorithm #138 distributed by Statlib.

Linear regression
    Maximum likelihood multivariate linear regression with censoring in the independent variable.  Applied Statistics algorithm #139 distributed by Statlib.

Mean of truncated multivariate dataset
    Maximum likelihood estimate of mean and covariance of the truncated multinormal distribution.  Applied Statistics algorithm #249 distributed by Statlib.

Mixture models for truncated data
    Fits mixture of normals to grouped and truncated data.  Applied Statistics algorithm #254 distributed by Statlib.

Multivariate two-sample test with censoring
    Wei-Lachin generalized Wilcoxon and log-rank tests for multivariate data. Applied Statistics algorithm #262 distributed by Statlib.

Bounded variable least squares
    Linear least squares problems with upper and lower bounds on the variables. By R. L. Parker (Scripps) and P. B. Stark  (UC Berkeley) and distributed by Statlib.