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Life table estimator revisited

  • Sergey V. Malov
  • , Stephen James O'Brien

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Abstract

We explore the standard life table (actuarial) estimator for grouped right-censored survival data and its extensions in order to consider its relationship with the Kaplan–Meier estimator, and to investigate the critical properties of the extended life table estimators (ELTEs). We discuss certain conditions for the ELTE to be consistent and develop a characterization of the standard life table estimator using the consistency property under any choice of at least two observation times of a finite interval. We also perform a comparative analysis of the ELTEs with the corresponding maximum likelihood estimators for grouped right-censored survival data.

Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)2126-2133
Number of pages8
JournalCommunications in Statistics - Theory and Methods
Volume47
Issue number9
DOIs
StatePublished - May 3 2018

Bibliographical note

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Funding

This research was supported in part by St.-Petersburg State University (grants No 1.37.165.2014 and No 1.52.1647.2016) and Russian Ministry of Education and Science Mega-grant No 11.G34.31.0068 (Dr. Stephen J. O’Brien, Principal Investigator).

FundersFunder number
Saint Petersburg State University1.37.165.2014, 1.52.1647.2016

    ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

    • Statistics and Probability

    Keywords

    • Independent censoring
    • Kaplan–Meier estimator
    • Life table estimator
    • Right censoring
    • Survival data

    Disciplines

    • Genetics and Genomics
    • Life Sciences

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