Estimation of the subsurvival function for time-to-tumor in survival/sacrifice experiments

Guadalupe Gómez and John Van Ryzin

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1992, vol. 13, issue 1, 5-13

Abstract: We propose a new closed-form nonparametric estimator for the subsurvival function for time-to-tumor. This estimator combines sacrifice data and data from natural deaths of animals without assumptions concerning the lethality of the tumor and without specification of cause of death.

Keywords: Carcinogenicity; bioassay; cause-specific; hazard; counting; process; martingales; survival/sacrifice; experiments; unknown; cause; of; death (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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