Bootstrap intervals in the presence of left-truncation, censoring and covariates with a parametric distribution

• Main Authors: Thirunanthini Manoharan,, Jayanthi Arasan,, Habshah Midi,, Mohd Bakri Adam,
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2017
• Online Access: http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11723/1/31%20Thirunanthini.pdf; http://journalarticle.ukm.my/11723/; http://www.ukm.my/jsm/english_journals/vol46num12_2017/contentsVol46num12_2017.htm

Left-truncated and censored survival data are commonly encountered in medical studies. However, traditional inferential methods that heavily rely on normality assumptions often fail when lifetimes of observations in a study are both truncated and censored. Thus, it is important to develop alternativ...