Survival function estimation when lifetime and censoring time are dependent

Nader Ebrahimi and Daniel Molefe

Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2003, vol. 87, issue 1, 101-132

Abstract: In this paper we consider a model for dependent censoring and derive a consistent asymptotically normal estimator for the underlying survival distribution from a sample of censored data. The methodology is illustrated with an application to the analysis of cancer data. Some simulations to evaluate the performance of our estimator are also presented. The results indicate that our estimator performs reasonably well in comparison to the other dependent censoring survival curve estimators.

Keywords: Dependent; censoring; Copula; Kaplan-Meier; Kernel; density; function; Band-width; Jackknife; variance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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