A Comparison of the Bias in Four Versions of the Product-Limit Estimator
四种乘积极限估计量的偏差比较
The bias of the product-limit estimator depends entirely on the method used to ‘complete’ the estimator beyond the last observation when it is censored. The bias has been investigated for the upper (Gill, 1980) and lower (Efron, 1967) bounds on these methods. Rather than using a completion method, investigators in practice commonly truncate the estimator using data-driven rules. The bias under two common truncation rules are considered: (i) truncating at the last observation…