Asymptotic behavior of the unconditional NPMLE of the length-biased survivor function from right censored prevalent cohort data
右删失现患队列中长度偏倚生存函数无条件非参数最大似然估计的渐近行为
Right censored survival data collected on a cohort of prevalent cases with constant incidence are length-biased, and may be used to estimate the length-biased (i.e., prevalent-case) survival function. When the incidence rate is constant, so-called stationarity of the incidence, it is more efficient to use this structure for unconditional statistical inference than to carry out an analysis by conditioning on the observed truncation times. It is well known that, due to the…