2021/09/06 by Ross Maller, Maller, Ross, Sidney I. Resnick +3
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Computer Science · Mathematics · #60N03 primary #62F05 secondary #Bayesian Methods and Mixture Models #FOS: Mathematics #Gene expression and cancer classification #Genetic Associations and Epidemiology #Statistical Methods and Inference #Statistics Theory (math.ST)
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2109.02817
openalex publication_date 2021/09/06 · openalex created_date 2022/07/25 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The existence of immune or cured individuals in a population and whether\nthere is sufficient followup in a sample of censored observations on their\nlifetimes to be confident of their presence are questions of major importance\nin medical survival analysis. So far only a few candidates have been put\nforward as possible test statistics for the existence of sufficient followup in\na sample. Here we investigate one such statistic and give a detailed analysis,\nobtaining an exact finite sample as well as asymptotic distributions for it,\nand use these to calculate the power of the test as a function of the followup\nin the sample.\n