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Response linked censoring: Modelling and estimation
Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistic.s, Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland 21205. U.S.A.
Department of Statistics, University of Tennessee Tennessee 37996, U.S.A.
A form of positive dependence between censoring time and response time is defined as response linked, RL, censoring. We present a method for modelling, estimation and detection of RL censoring in situations where both RL and independent censoring can occur. This method involves parametric modelling with covanates and is illustrated with the Stanford heart transplant data. Other applications are mentioned.
Key Words: Covariate Dependent censoring Survival analysis