Rank Estimation of Treatment Differences Based on Repeated Measurements Subject to Dependent Censoring
依赖删失重复测量下治疗差异的秩估计
In comparing the effectiveness of two treatments, suppose that for each patient repeated measurements of an outcome variable are taken at prespecified time points, but some observations may be missing due to the patient's dependent right censoring. In this article, a simple rank estimation procedure, constructed based on an artificial censoring technique, is proposed for the treatment differences over time without imposing a parametric structure on the dependence between the…