Abstract
This paper proposes a method for incorporating covariate information in the analysis of survival data when both the time of the originating event and the failure event can be right- or interval-censored. This method generalizes the one-sample estimation results of De Gruttola and Lagakos by allowing the distribution of time between the two events to be a function of covariates under a proportional hazards model. Estimates for the model coefficients, as well as the underlying distributions, are obtained by an iterative fitting procedure based on Turnbull's self-consistency algorithm in combination with the Newton-Raphson algorithm. The method is illustrated with data from a study of hemophiliacs infected with the human immunodeficiency virus.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 13-22 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Biometrics |
Volume | 49 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1993 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- AIDS
- Interval censoring
- Proportional hazards
- Self-consistency
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Statistics and Probability
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology(all)
- Immunology and Microbiology(all)
- Agricultural and Biological Sciences(all)
- Applied Mathematics