Bootstrap confidence bands for sojourn distributions in multistate semi-Markov models with right censoring
右删失多状态半马尔可夫模型中停留分布的自助法置信带
Transient semi-Markov processes have traditionally been used to describe the transitions of a patient through the various states of a multistate survival model. A survival distribution in this context is a sojourn through the states until passage to a fatal absorbing state or certain endpoint states. Using complete sojourn data, this paper shows how such survival distributions and associated hazard functions can be estimated nonparametrically and also how nonparametric…