Semiparametric linear transformation models have received much attention due to its high flexibility in modeling survival data. A useful estimating equation procedure was recently proposed by Chen et al. (2002) for linear transformation models to jointly estimate parametric and nonparametric...

Many statistical analysis procedures require a good estimator for the high dimensional covariance matrix or its inverse, the precision matrix. When the precision matrix is banded, the Cholesky-based method can often yield a good estimator for the precision matrix. One important aspect of this...