Kernel estimation of a hazard function

In recent years considerable attention has been paid to methods for analyzing data on events observed over time and to the study of factors associated with occurrence rate for these events. The problem of analyzing such data sets arises in a number of applied fields, such as medicine, biology, public health, epidemiology, technical sciences etc. Such data are generically referred to as survival data. A special feature of survival data which renders standard methods inappropriate is they contain censored observations…