Estimating Dependent Life Lengths, with Applications to the Theory of Competing Risks
依赖寿命的估计及其在竞争风险理论中的应用
In the classical theory of competing risks (as well as in many reliability models and incomplete data problems) it is assumed that (A1) the risks (i.e., the random variables of interest) are independent and that (A2) death does not result from simultaneous causes. Employing our probabilistic solution to a related problem in probability modelling, we obtain strongly consistent estimators for the unobservable marginal distributions of interest. These estimators are analogous…