Smoothed estimator of quantile residual lifetime for right censored data |
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Authors: | Li Zhang Peng Liu Yong Zhou |
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Institution: | 1. School of Statistics and Management, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, 200433, China 2. Academy of Mathematics and System Sciences, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, 100190, China
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Abstract: | It is of great interest to estimate quantile residual lifetime in medical science and many other ?elds. In survival analysis, Kaplan-Meier(K-M) estimator has been widely used to estimate the survival distribution. However, it is well-known that the K-M estimator is not continuous, thus it can not always be used to calculate quantile residual lifetime. In this paper, the authors propose a kernel smoothing method to give an estimator of quantile residual lifetime. By using modern empirical process techniques, the consistency and the asymptotic normality of the proposed estimator are provided neatly.The authors also present the empirical small sample performances of the estimator. De?ciency is introduced to compare the performance of the proposed estimator with the naive unsmoothed estimator of the quantile residaul lifetime. Further simulation studies indicate that the proposed estimator performs very well. |
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