Some applications of the bootstrap to survival analysis

In this work some of the classical applications of bootstrap methods to survival analysis are reviewed. First the bootstrap estimate of the variance and the bias-corrected estimate of the median for the Kaplan-Meier estimator of the survival function are considered. After this, more recent topics ar...

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Autores: Utzet Civit, Federico, Sánchez, Alex|||0000-0002-8673-7737
Formato: artículo
Fecha de publicación:1992
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:132598
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/132598
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Survival analysis
Censored sample
Kaplan-Meier estimator
Bootstrap
Bootstrap test
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Resumo:In this work some of the classical applications of bootstrap methods to survival analysis are reviewed. First the bootstrap estimate of the variance and the bias-corrected estimate of the median for the Kaplan-Meier estimator of the survival function are considered. After this, more recent topics are considered such as methods for constructing confidence bands for the estimate of the survival function and exact and approximated tests to compare two survival functions. In the last two situations the bootstrap proves to be helpful in approximating the necessary critical values.