Modular Nonparametric Subsurvival Estimation
模块化非参数子生存估计
This article describes new methods for estimating survival distributions based on nonparametric curve estimators. One approach improves the estimation of long-term survival rates. Simulation studies using Weibull and lognormal data show that even in the case found to be least favorable, the new method has less than one-seventh the prediction error of all conventional life-table (LT) or Kaplan–Meier (KM) estimators, even when the LT and KM techniques are optimized for the…