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Vahid Tadayon Popular answer

Please see my paper:

Article Bayesian Analysis of Skew Gaussian Spatial Models Based on C...

James Kevin Summers

Koenker, Roger. "Quantile regresssion." Encyclopedia of Environmetrics (2006).

Nair, V. N. "Plots and tests for goodness of fit with randomly censored data." Biometrika 68.1 (1981): 99-103.

Zhou, Mai. "Empirical likelihood ratio with arbitrarily censored/truncated data by EM algorithm." Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (2012).

Rossini, A. J., and A. A. Tsiatis. "A semiparametric proportional odds regression model for the analysis of current status data." Journal of the American Statistical Association 91.434 (1996): 713-721.

Gillespie, Brenda W., et al. "Estimating population distributions when some data are below a limit of detection by using a reverse Kaplan-Meier estimator." Epidemiology 21.4 (2010): S64-S70.

Cai, Tianxi, and Rebecca A. Betensky. "Hazard Regression for Interval‐Censored Data with Penalized Spline." Biometrics 59.3 (2003): 570-579.

Daniel Alan Vallero

Also, specific to environmental risk, how about Shoari, et al.?

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10807039.2015.1079481

DAN'S SUGGESTION IS A GOOD ONE FOR CENSORED DATA REPLACEMENT.

Shoji F Nakayama

Here is a good reading: http://as.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002278.html

See Chapter 5.

Joachim D Pleil

thanks folks! that was helpful... joach

Vahid Tadayon