Proportional hazards model for competing risks data with missing cause of failure

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 142, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1767-1779

  Hyun, Seunggeun ^a   Lee, Jimin ^b   Sun, Yanqing ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA UPSTATE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT ASHEVILLE   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Asymptotic property; Augmented inverse probability weighted estimator; Cause specific hazard function; Double robust property; Inverse probability weighted estimator; Missing cause of failure; Multiple imputation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862812313     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2012.02.037     Document Type: Article

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