Rank-based inference for the accelerated failure time model
加速失效时间模型的秩推断
A broad class of rank‐based monotone estimating functions is developed for the semiparametric accelerated failure time model with censored observations. The corresponding estimators can be obtained via linear programming, and are shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal. The limiting covariance matrices can be estimated by a resampling technique, which does not involve nonparametric density estimation or numerical derivatives. The new estimators represent consistent…