Jackknifing the kaplan-meier survival estimator for censored data: Simulation results and asymptotic analysis |
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| Authors: | Donald P. Gaver Rupert G. Miller Jr |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Naval Postgraduate School , Monterey, California;2. Stanford University , Stanford, California |
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| Abstract: | ![]()
It is shown by simulation t h a t the (arc-sine transformation of the) Kaplan-Meier survival estimator for censored data can be usefully jackknifed to give conservative confidence limits for survival probabilities when samples are small (25 and 50). Mathematical demonstration of the asymptotic, large-sample, validity of the jackknife is included. |
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| Keywords: | censored data generalized maximum likelihood estimation Kaplan-Meier simulation asymptotics survival anaysis |
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