Document Type

Article

Department/Program

Mathematics

Journal Title

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Pub Date

6-2008

Volume

57

Issue

2

First Page

248

Abstract

Simultaneous discrimination among various parametric lifetime models is an important step in the parametric analysis of survival data. We consider a plot of the skewness versus the coefficient of variation for the purpose of discriminating among parametric survival models. We extend the method of Cox & Oakes from complete to censored data by developing an algorithm based on a competing risks model and kernel function estimation. A by-product of this algorithm is a nonparametric survival function estimate.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1109/TR.2008.923488

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