© 2003 by Biometrika Trust
Khmaladze-type graphical evaluation of the proportional hazards assumption
1 Department of Biostatistics, Institut Curie, 26 rue d'Ulm, 75005 Paris, France joq{at}biomath.jussieu.fr
Khmaladze-type goodness-of-fit tests are based on transforming an appropriate empirical process to one with a known large-sample distribution.Using Donsker's theorem, together with a theorem for proportional hazards generalising a theorem of Xu & O'Quigley (1999), we indicate how to construct a Khmaladze-type graphical test for evaluating the proportional hazards assumption. An illustration is given in which a partially proportional hazards model can be seen to provide a noticeably improved fit over a fully proportional hazards model.
Key Words: Goodness of fit; Khmaladze process; Proportional hazards regression
Received September 2001. Revised December 2002