Title
Robust Smoothed Rank Estimation Methods for Accelerated Failure Time Model Allowing Clusters.
Abstract
Smoothed Gehan rank estimation methods are widely used in accelerated failure time (AFT) models with/without clusters. However, most methods are sensitive to outliers in the covariates. In order to solve this problem, we propose robust approaches based on the smoothed Gehan rank estimation methods for the AFT model, allowing for clusters by employing two different weight functions. Simulation studies show that the proposed methods outperform existing smoothed rank estimation methods regarding their biases and standard deviations when there are outliers in the covariates. The proposed methods are also applied to a real dataset from the Major cardiovascular interventions study.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1080/03610918.2014.882944
COMMUNICATIONS IN STATISTICS-SIMULATION AND COMPUTATION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Accelerated failure time model,Clusters,Gehan rank estimation,Robust,62N01,62N02,62H12
Journal
45
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
0361-0918
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
3
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ji Luo100.34
Haifen Li200.34
Jiajia Zhang32616.64