When subjects are recruited through a cross-sectional survey they have already experienced the initiation of the event of interest, say the onset of a disease. This method of recruitment results in the fact that subjects with longer duration of the disease have a higher chance of being selected. It follows that censoring in such a case is not non-informative. The application of standard techniques for right-censored data thus introduces a bias to the analysis; this is referred to as length-bias. This paper examines the case where the subjects are assumed to enter the study at a uniform rate, allowing for the analysis in a more efficient unconditional manner. In particular, a new method for unconditional analysis is developed based on the framework of a conditional estimator. This new method is then applied to the several data sets and compared with the conditional technique of Tsai [23].
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.100210 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Shinohara, Russell. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Mathematics and Statistics.) |
| Rights | © Russell Shinohara, 2007 |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002666607, proquestno: AAIMR38435, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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