Estimation of Competing Risks with General Missing Pattern in Failure Types

Biometrics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1063-1070

  Dewanji, Anup ^a   Sengupta, Debasis ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Cause specific hazard; Competing risks; EM algorithm; Missing at random; Missing failure type; Nelson Aalen estimator

Indexed keywords

LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM PRINCIPLE; RISK PERCEPTION;

CAUSE-SPECIFIC HAZARD; COMPETING RISKS; CONDITIONAL PROBABILITIES; DATA MISSING; EXPECTATIONS MAXIMIZATION ALGORITHMS; FAILURE TIME; FAILURE TYPES; MISSING AT RANDOMS; MISSING FAILURE TYPE; NELSON-AALEN ESTIMATOR;

HAZARDS;

ALGORITHM;

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASSAY; DATA ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHENOMENOLOGY; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; SIMULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0346733296     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2003.00122.x     Document Type: Article

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