Current status data with two competing risks and missing failure types: a parametric approach

Article Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Journal of Applied Statistics

Abstract

Missing cause of failure is a common problem in competing risks data. Here we consider a general missing pattern in which one observes a set of possible causes containing the true cause. In this work, we focus on the parametric analysis of current status data with two competing risks and the above-mentioned missing pattern. We make some simpler assumptions on the conditional probability of observing a set of possible causes of failure given the true cause and carry out maximum-likelihood estimation of the model parameters. Asymptotic properties of the maximum-likelihood estimators are also discussed. Simulation studies are performed to study the finite sample properties of the estimators and also to investigate the role of the monitoring time distribution. Finally, the method is illustrated through the analysis of a real data set.

First Page

1769

Last Page

1783

DOI

10.1080/02664763.2021.1881453

Publication Date

1-1-2022

Comments

Open Access, Green

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