Analysis of interval censored failure time data with competing risk. Issue 15 (18th November 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kim, Yang-Jin
• Is Part Of: Journal of applied statistics. Volume 44:Issue 15(2017)
• Page Start: 2778
• Page End: 2790
• Publication Date: 2017-11-18
• Subjects: Competing risk -- cumulative incidence function -- interval censored data -- nonparametric maximum likelihood -- test statistics; Statistics -- Periodicals; 519.5
• DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2016.1263609
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0266-4763

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In this article, we analyze interval censored failure time data with competing risks. A new estimator for the cumulative incidence function is derived using an approximate likelihood and a test statistic to compare two samples is then obtained by extending Sun's test statistic. Small sample properties of the proposed methods are examined by conducting simulations and a cohort dataset from AIDS patients is analyzed as a real example.