Estimation of Stratified Mark-Specific Proportional Hazards Models with Missing Marks

Scandinavian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 34-52

  Sun, Yanqing ^a   Gilbert, Peter B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Augmented inverse probability weighted complete case estimator; Auxiliary marks; Competing risks; Double robustness; Failure time data; Genetic data; HIV vaccine trial; Mark specific vaccine efficacy; Missing at random; Semiparametric model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857038634     PISSN: 03036898     EISSN: 14679469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9469.2011.00746.x     Document Type: Article

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