Dependent Competing Risks and Summary Survival Curves
相依竞争风险与汇总生存曲线
In many contexts where there is interest in inferring the marginal distribution of a survival time T subject to censoring embodied in a latent waiting time C, the times T and C may not be independent. This paper presents a new class of nonparametric assumptions on the conditional distribution of T given C and shows how they lead to consistent generalizations of the Kaplan & Meier (1958) survival curve estimator. The new survival curve estimators are used under weak…