Parametric and semiparametric models are tools with a wide range of applications to reliability, survival analysis, and quality of life. This self-contained volume examines these tools in survey articles written by experts currently working on the development and evaluation of models and methods. While a number of chapters deal with general theory, several explore more specific connections and recent results in "real-world" reliability theory, survival analysis, and related fields.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
I: Cox Models and Analyses. - 1 Estimation in Partly Parametric Additive Cox Models. - 2 Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimation in the Proportional Hazards Model with Covariate Measurement Error. - 3 Diagnostics for Cox s Proportional Hazards Model. - II: Degradation Models and Analyses. - 4 Semiparametric Analysis of Degradation and Failure Time Data with Covariates. - 5 On a Degradation-Failure Model for Repairable Items. - 6 Comparison of Parametric and Semiparametric Estimates in a Degradation Model with Covariates and Traumatic Censoring. - III: Accelerated Failure Time Models and Analyses. - 7 Accelerated Life Testing, Fuzzy Information and Generalized Probability. - 8 Asymptotic Theory in Rank Estimation for AFT Model Under Fixed Censorship. - 9 An Example of Optimal Design in Accelerated Experiments. - IV: Aging Properties and Analyses. - 10 Aspects of Multivariate Aging in Exchangeable Frailty Models. - 11 Semiparametric Models in the Studies of Aging and Longevity. - V: Analyses of Censored and Truncated Data. - 12 Semiparametric Transformation Models for Arbitrarily Censored and Truncated Data. - 13 EM Algorithm for Type-II Right Censored Bivariate Normal Data. - 14 Statistical Estimation Based on Interval Censored Data. - VI: Regression Methods and Applications. - 15 The Covariate Order Method for Nonparametric Exponential Regression and Some Applications in Other Lifetime Models. - 16 Effect of Ignoring Heterogeneity in Hazards Regression. - VII: Time Series Analysis. - 17 An Introduction to Efficient Estimation for Semiparametric Time Series. - VIII: Inferential Analysis. - 18 Distance-based Multivariate Two Sample Tests. - 18 Empirical Likelihood in Nonparametric and Semiparametric Models. - 19 Goodness of Fit Tests of L2-Type. - IX: Multicentre Studies. - 12 AsymptoticProperties of the CRT Estimators for Multicentre Studies. - X: Quality of Life Studies. - 22 HRQoL and Concomitant Adjusted Mean Residual Life Analysis. - 23 Semiparametric Approach to the Multivariate Mixed Rasch Model. - XI: Breast Cancer Studies. - 24 Breast Cancer Prognosis Using Survival Forests. - 25 Semiparametric Versus Parametric Regression Analysis Based on the Bounded Cumulative Hazard Model: An Application to Breast Cancer Recurrence. - XII: Inference for Processes. - 26 Estimation of Analytic Spectral Density of Gaussian Stationary Processes. - 27 Sub-optimal Estimation of an Unknown function from Stationary Noisy Data. - 28 On Parameter Estimation by Contaminated Observations of Ergodic Diffusion Processes auYu. A. Kutoyants. - 29 On Parameter Estimation for a Position-Dependent Marking of a Doubly Stochastic Poisson Process. - 30 Discrete Time Semi-Markov Processes for Reliability and Survival Analysis - A Nonparametric Estimation Approach. - 31 Non-parametric Estimation on Lifetimes of Subjects Exposed to Radiation from a Semi-Markov Process. - XIII: Probability Theory and Applications. - 32 An Extension of Lévy s Formula to Weighted Wiener Processes. - 33 Sur l Inégalité de Concentration de Doeblin-Lévy, Rogozin Kesten.
