THE PARADOXICAL NATURE OF THE PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL OF RANDOM CENSORSHIP

Authors
CSORGO S FARAWAY JJ
Citation
S. Csorgo et Jj. Faraway, THE PARADOXICAL NATURE OF THE PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL OF RANDOM CENSORSHIP, Statistics, 31(1), 1998, pp. 67-78
Citations number
32
Categorie Soggetti
Statistic & Probability","Statistic & Probability
Journal title
Statistics → ACNP
ISSN journal
02331888
Volume
31
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
67 - 78
Database
ISI
SICI code
0233-1888(1998)31:1<67:TPNOTP>2.0.ZU;2-F
Abstract
We show that the proportional hazards model of random censorship is to o good to be frequently true as measured by mean squared errors: for e stimating the underlying distribution function F(x) it is better to ha ve a censored sample for a suitable expected censoring proportion than an uncensored full sample of the same size for any x below the 0.56-q uantile of F.