We either observe the exact survival time or only know the survival time lies within the censoring interval. Turnbull (1976) proposes a self-consistent algorithm for obtaining the generalized maximum ...

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Vol. 27, No. 1 (Mar., 2000), pp. 35-44 (10 pages) The self-consistent estimator is commonly used for estimating a survival function with interval-censored data.