
arXiv: 1312.6341
We investigate the performance of model based bootstrap methods for constructing point-wise confidence intervals around the survival function with interval censored data. We show that bootstrapping from the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator of the survival function is inconsistent for both the current status and case 2 interval censoring models. A model based smoothed bootstrap procedure is proposed and shown to be consistent. In addition, simulation studies are conducted to illustrate the (in)-consistency of the bootstrap methods. Our conclusions in the interval censoring model would extend more generally to estimators in regression models that exhibit non-standard rates of convergence.
FOS: Computer and information sciences, nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator, Estimation in survival analysis and censored data, Methodology (stat.ME), Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference, current status data, mixed-case interval censoring, Nonparametric statistical resampling methods, consistency of bootstrap, Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics, Nonparametric estimation, Statistics - Methodology
FOS: Computer and information sciences, nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator, Estimation in survival analysis and censored data, Methodology (stat.ME), Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference, current status data, mixed-case interval censoring, Nonparametric statistical resampling methods, consistency of bootstrap, Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics, Nonparametric estimation, Statistics - Methodology
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