Analysis of a semiparametric mixture model for competing risks

作者：Hernandez Quintero Angelica; Dupuy Jean Francois^*; Escarela Gabriel

来源：Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, 2011, 63(2): 305-329.

DOI：10.1007/s10463-009-0229-1

• Censored failure time data
• Competing risks
• Large-sample properties
• Maximum likelihood estimation
• Mixture model
• Multinomial logistic
• Proportional hazards model

Semiparametric mixture regression models have recently been proposed to model competing risks data in survival analysis. In particular, Ng and McLachlan (Stat Med 22:1097-1111, 2003) and Escarela and Bowater (Commun Stat Theory Methods 37:277-293, 2008) have investigated the computational issues associated with the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation method in a multinomial logistic/proportional hazards mixture model. In this work, we rigorously establish the existence, consistency, and asymptotic normality of the resulting nonparametric maximum likelihood estimators. We also propose consistent variance estimators for both the finite and infinite dimensional parameters in this model.

• 出版日期2011-4