An Additive Risks Regression Model for Middle-Censored Lifetime Data

Sankaran P. G. () and Prasad S. ()
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Sankaran P. G.: Department of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India
Prasad S.: Department of Statistics, Cochin University of Science and Technology, Kerala, India

Statistics in Transition New Series, 2017, vol. 18, issue 3, 459-479

Abstract: Middle-censoring refers to data arising in situations where the exact lifetime of study subjects becomes unobservable if it happens to fall in a random censoring interval. In the present paper we propose a semiparametric additive risks regression model for analysing middle-censored lifetime data arising from an unknown population. We estimate the regression parameters and the unknown baseline survival function by two different methods. The first method uses the martingale-based theory and the second method is an iterative method. We report simulation studies to assess the finite sample behaviour of the estimators. Then, we illustrate the utility of the model with a real life data set. The paper ends with a conclusion.

Keywords: additive risks model; counting process; martingales; middle-censoring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.21307/stattrans-2016-081

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