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Proportional Mean Residual Life Model For Right-Censored Length-Biased Data, Gary Kwun Chuen Chan, Ying Qing Chen, Chongzhi Di

Chongzhi Di

To study disease association with risk factors in epidemiologic studies, cross-sectional sampling is often more focused and less costly for recruiting study subjects who have already experienced initiating events. For time-to-event outcome, however, such a sampling strategy may be length-biased. Coupled with censoring, analysis of length-biased data can be quite challenging, due to the so-called “induced informative censoring” in which the survival time and censoring time are correlated through a common backward recurrence time. We propose to use the proportional mean residual life model of Oakes and Dasu (1990) for analysis of censored length-biased survival data. Several nonstandard data structures, …