Fundamentals of survival data

Biometrics
P Hougaard

Abstract

Survival data stand out as a special statistical field. This paper tries to describe what survival data is and what makes it so special. Survival data concern times to some events. A key point is the successive observation of time, which on the one hand leads to some times not being observed so that all that is known is that they exceed some given times (censoring), and on the other hand implies that predictions regarding the future course should be conditional on the present status (truncation). In the simplest case, this condition is that the individual is alive. The successive conditioning makes the hazard function, which describes the probability of an event happening during a short interval given that the individual is alive today (or more generally able to experience the event), the most relevant concept. Standard distributions available (normal, log-normal, gamma, inverse Gaussian, and so forth) can account for censoring and truncation, but this is cumbersome. Besides, they fit badly because they are either symmetric or right skewed, but survival time distributions can easily be left-skewed positive variables. A few distributions satisfying these requirements are available, but often nonparametric methods are preferable ...Continue Reading

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