https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/112511
Title: | NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATION OF SOJOURN TIME DISTRIBUTIONS FOR TRUNCATED SERIAL EVENT DATA - A WEIGHT- ADJUSTED APPROACH | Authors: | CHANG, SHU-HUI | Keywords: | bivariate distribution;informative censoring;multiple events;nonparametric estimation;recurrent events;truncation | Issue Date: | 2006 | Journal Volume: | v.12 | Journal Issue: | n.1 | Start page/Pages: | 53-67 | Source: | LIFETIME DATA ANALYSIS | Abstract: | In follow-up studies, survival data often include subjects who have had a certain event at recruitment and may potentially experience a series of subsequent events during the follow-up period. This kind of survival data collected under a cross-sectional sampling criterion is called truncated serial event data. The outcome variables of interest in this paper are serial sojourn times between successive events. To analyze the sojourn times in truncated serial event data, we need to confront two potential sampling biases arising simultaneously from a sampling criterion and induced informative censoring. In this study, nonparametric estimation of the joint probability function of serial sojourn times is developed by using inverse probabilities of the truncation and censoring times as weight functions to accommodate these two sampling biases under various situations of truncation and censoring. Relevant statistical properties of the proposed estimators are also discussed. Simulation studies and two real data are presented to illustrate the proposed methods. |
URI: | http://ntur.lib.ntu.edu.tw//handle/246246/84397 |
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