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1Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YF, UK, a.titman@lancaster.ac.uk.
Abstract:
A likelihood based approach to obtaining non-parametric estimates of the failure time distribution is developed for the copula based model of Wang et al. (Lifetime Data Anal 18:434-445, 2012) for current status data under dependent observation. Maximization of the likelihood involves a generalized pool-adjacent violators algorithm. The estimator coincides with the standard non-parametric maximum likelihood estimate under an independence model. Confidence intervals for the estimator are constructed based on a smoothed bootstrap. It is also shown that the non-parametric failure distribution is only identifiable if the copula linking the observation and failure time distributions is fully-specified. The method is illustrated on a previously analyzed tumorigenicity dataset.
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