Estimates of marginal survival for dependent competing risks based on an assumed copula
基于假定 Copula 的依赖竞争风险边际生存估计
When time to death and time to censoring are associated one may be appreciably misled when the marginal survival functions are estimated using the product-limit estimators, which assume independent censoring. If no assumption about the relationship between the two times is made, the marginal survival functions are not identifiable. A natural function that defines the association between the two random variables is the copula. We show that if this function is known then the…