Survival analysis involves the consideration of the time between a fixed starting point (e.g. diagnosis of cancer) and a terminating event (e.g. death). The key feature that distinguishes such data ...

This article introduces a new approach for estimating the hazard function for possibly interval- and right-censored survival data. We weakly parameterize the log-hazard function with a ...

Daniel Liberto is a journalist with over 10 years of experience working with publications such as the Financial Times, The Independent, and Investors Chronicle. Robert Kelly is managing director of ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We introduce a statistical distribution with hazard function μ(t) proportional to (ψ - t) β-1 for 0 ⩽ t < ψ and shape parameter β satisfying 0 ...