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Estimation of competing risks with general missing pattern in failure types
Authors:Dewanji Anup  Sengupta Debasis
Institution:Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B. T. Road, Calcutta 700 035, India. dewanjia@isical.ac.in
Abstract:In competing risks data, missing failure types (causes) is a very common phenomenon. In this work, we consider a general missing pattern in which, if a failure type is not observed, one observes a set of possible types containing the true type, along with the failure time. We first consider maximum likelihood estimation with missing-at-random assumption via the expectation maximization (EM) algorithm. We then propose a Nelson-Aalen type estimator for situations when certain information on the conditional probability of the true type given a set of possible failure types is available from the experimentalists. This is based on a least-squares type method using the relationships between hazards for different types and hazards for different combinations of missing types. We conduct a simulation study to investigate the performance of this method, which indicates that bias may be small, even for high proportion of missing data, for sufficiently large number of observations. The estimates are somewhat sensitive to misspecification of the conditional probabilities of the true types when the missing proportion is high. We also consider an example from an animal experiment to illustrate our methodology.
Keywords:Competing risks  Cause-specific hazard  Missing failure type  Missing at random  EM algorithm  Nelson-Aalen estimator
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