"Comparison of cumulative incidence functions of current status competi" by Engakkattu Purushothaman Sreedevi, Paduthol Godan Sankaran et al.
 

Comparison of cumulative incidence functions of current status competing risks data with discrete observation times

Article Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Abstract

Competing risks data with current status censoring arise frequently from transversal studies in demography, epidemiology and reliability theory; where the only information about lifetime is whether the event of interest has occurred or not before a monitoring time. In practice, the monitoring times are discrete, but most of the studies consider them as continuous in nature. In the present paper, we propose a non parametric test for comparing cumulative incidence functions of current status competing risks data while the observation (monitoring) times are discrete. Asymptotic distribution of the test statistic is also derived. A simulation study is conducted to assess the finite sample behavior of the test statistic. The practical utility of the procedure is well demonstrated using a real-life data set on menopausal history of 2423 women given in Jewell, van der Laan, and Henneman (2003).

First Page

5766

Last Page

5776

DOI

10.1080/03610926.2018.1520887

Publication Date

12-2-2019

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