Parameter estimation of the cure fraction based on BCH model using left-censored data with covariates.

• Main Authors: I. Aljawadi, Bader Ahnad, Abu Bakar, Mohd Rizam, Ibrahim, Noor Akma, Midi, Habshah
• Format: Article
• Language: English; English
• Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2011
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24828/1/Parameter%20estimation%20of%20the%20cure%20fraction%20based%20on%20BCH%20model%20using%20left.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/24828/; http://web.ccsenet.org/

Medical investigations nowadays allow the incorporation of cure individuals in the analysis, especially for chronic diseases such as cancer. Therefore, survival models that incorporate the cured patients in the analysis are called cure rate models. In this paper, we propose an analytical approach fo...