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On the assumption of independent right censoring

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  • Morten Overgaard
  • Stefan Nygaard Hansen

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Various assumptions on a right‐censoring mechanism to ensure consistency of the Kaplan–Meier and Aalen–Johansen estimators in a competing risks setting are studied. Specifically, eight different assumptions are seen to fall in two categories: a weaker identifiability assumption, which is the weakest possible assumption in a precise sense, and a stronger representativity assumption which ensures the existence of an independent censoring time. When a given censoring time is considered, similar assumptions can be made on the censoring time. This allows for a characterization of so‐called pointwise independence as well as full independence of censoring time and event time and type. Examples illustrate how the various assumptions differ.

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  • Morten Overgaard & Stefan Nygaard Hansen, 2021. "On the assumption of independent right censoring," Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Danish Society for Theoretical Statistics;Finnish Statistical Society;Norwegian Statistical Association;Swedish Statistical Association, vol. 48(4), pages 1234-1255, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:scjsta:v:48:y:2021:i:4:p:1234-1255
    DOI: 10.1111/sjos.12487
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