Presmoothing the Aalen-Johansen estimator in the illness-death model

One major goal in clinical applications of multi-state models is the estimation of transition probabilities. The usual nonparametric estimator of the transition matrix for non-homogeneous Markov processes is the Aalen-Johansen estimator (Aalen and Johansen 1978 [1]). In this paper we propose a modif...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moreira, Ana (author)
Other Authors: Uña-Álvarez, Jacobo de (author), Machado, Luís Meira (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/25803
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/25803