Kaplan-Meier representation of competing risk estimates

Glen A. Satten and Somnath Datta

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1999, vol. 42, issue 3, 299-304

Abstract: A novel representation for the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (NPMLE) of the failure time distributions in the competing risks problem with right-censored data is derived. This representation shows that the NPMLE can be calculated by a Kaplan-Meier survival function for each failure type, where an appropriate fraction of the censored observations contribute to each risk set.

Keywords: Kaplan-Meier; estimator; Aalen-Johansen; estimator; Right; censoring; Maximum; likelihood; Competing; risk; Fractional; risk; set (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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