Non parametric hazard estimation with dependent censoring using penalized likelihood and an assumed copula

Jing Xu, Jun Ma and Tania Prvan

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2017, vol. 46, issue 22, 11383-11403

Abstract: This article introduces a novel non parametric penalized likelihood hazard estimation when the censoring time is dependent on the failure time for each subject under observation. More specifically, we model this dependence using a copula, and the method of maximum penalized likelihood (MPL) is adopted to estimate the hazard function. We do not consider covariates in this article. The non negatively constrained MPL hazard estimation is obtained using a multiplicative iterative algorithm. The consistency results and the asymptotic properties of the proposed hazard estimator are derived. The simulation studies show that our MPL estimator under dependent censoring with an assumed copula model provides a better accuracy than the MPL estimator under independent censoring if the sign of dependence is correctly specified in the copula function. The proposed method is applied to a real dataset, with a sensitivity analysis performed over various values of correlation between failure and censoring times.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2016.1267757

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