Induced smoothing for the semiparametric accelerated failure time model: asymptotics and extensions to clustered data
半参数加速失效时间模型的诱导平滑:渐近理论与聚类数据扩展
This paper extends the induced smoothing procedure of Brown & Wang (2006) for the semiparametric accelerated failure time model to the case of clustered failure time data. The resulting procedure permits fast and accurate computation of regression parameter estimates and standard errors using simple and widely available numerical methods, such as the Newton-Raphson algorithm. The regression parameter estimates are shown to be strongly consistent and asymptotically normal; in…