Nonparametric estimation of successive duration times under dependent censoring
依赖删失下连续两次事件持续时间的非参数估计
This paper considers nonparametric inference for duration times of two successive events. Since the second duration process becomes observable only if the first event has occurred, the length of the first duration affects the probability of the second duration being censored. Dependent censoring arises if the two duration times are correlated, which is often the case. Standard approaches to this problem fail because of dependent censoring mechanism. A new product-limit…