Estimating Regression Parameters in Linear Regression Model with a Censored Response Variable

Main Authors: Jesus Orbe, Vicente Nunez-Anton
Format: Article
Bahasa: eng
Terbitan: , 2011
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Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/1081765
Daftar Isi:
  • In this work we study the effect of several covariates X on a censored response variable T with unknown probability distribution. In this context, most of the studies in the literature can be located in two possible general classes of regression models: models that study the effect the covariates have on the hazard function; and models that study the effect the covariates have on the censored response variable. Proposals in this paper are in the second class of models and, more specifically, on least squares based model approach. Thus, using the bootstrap estimate of the bias, we try to improve the estimation of the regression parameters by reducing their bias, for small sample sizes. Simulation results presented in the paper show that, for reasonable sample sizes and censoring levels, the bias is always smaller for the new proposals.