Abstract

RAMIREZ, JAVIER. Comparison of Confidence Intervals for the Survival Function in the Presence of Right Censoring. Rev.Colomb.Estad. [online]. 2011, vol.34, n.1, pp.197-209. ISSN 0120-1751.

This work compares methods to find confidence interval for the survival function such as the resampling methods Bootstrap, applied to the Kaplan-Meier and Nelson-Aalen estimators. Also through \log, \log(-\log) and arcsin transformations that can result more effectives in many cases. The behavior of nonparametric confidence intervals against parametric ones is also shown.

Keywords : Bootstrap; Confidence intervals; Kaplan-Meier estimator; Survival function; Right censoring.

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