Accelerated failure time regression for backward recurrence times and current durations

TY - JOUR

T1 - Accelerated failure time regression for backward recurrence times and current durations

AU - Keiding, N

AU - Fine, J P

AU - Hansen, O H

AU - Slama, R

PY - 2011/7

Y1 - 2011/7

N2 - Backward recurrence times in stationary renewal processes and current durations in dynamic populations observed at a cross-section may yield estimates of underlying interarrival times or survival distributions under suitable stationarity assumptions. Regression models have been proposed for these situations, but accelerated failure time models have the particularly attractive feature that they are preserved when going from the backward recurrence times to the underlying survival distribution of interest. This simple fact has recently been noticed in a sociological context and is here illustrated by a study of current duration of time to pregnancy

AB - Backward recurrence times in stationary renewal processes and current durations in dynamic populations observed at a cross-section may yield estimates of underlying interarrival times or survival distributions under suitable stationarity assumptions. Regression models have been proposed for these situations, but accelerated failure time models have the particularly attractive feature that they are preserved when going from the backward recurrence times to the underlying survival distribution of interest. This simple fact has recently been noticed in a sociological context and is here illustrated by a study of current duration of time to pregnancy

U2 - 10.1016/j.spl.2011.02.009

DO - 10.1016/j.spl.2011.02.009

M3 - Journal article

SN - 0167-7152

VL - 81

SP - 724

EP - 729

JO - Statistics & Probability Letters

JF - Statistics & Probability Letters

IS - 7

ER -