Almost Sure Representations of the Product-Limit Estimator for Truncated Data

Abstract

In the left-truncation model, one observes data $(X_i,Y_i)$ only when $Y_i\leq X_i$. Let F denote the marginal d.f. of $X_i$ , the variable of interest. The nonparametric MLE $\hat{F}_n$ of F aims at reconstructing F from truncated data. In this paper an almost sure representation of $\hat{F}_n$ is derived with improved error bounds on the one hand and under weaker distributional assumptions on the other hand.