Joint lifetime modeling with matrix distributions

DOI10.1515/DEMO-2022-0153zbMATH Open1514.62184arXiv2207.01279OpenAlexW4315649361MaRDI QIDQ6160718FDOQ6160718

Authors: Hansjörg Albrecher, Martin Bladt, A. Müller 

Publication date: 26 June 2023

Published in: Dependence Modeling (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Acyclic phase-type (PH) distributions have been a popular tool in survival analysis, thanks to their natural interpretation in terms of ageing towards its inevitable absorption. In this paper, we consider an extension to the bivariate setting for the modelling of joint lifetimes. In contrast to previous models in the literature that were based on a separate estimation of the marginal behavior and the dependence structure through a copula, we propose a new time-inhomogeneous version of a multivariate PH class (mIPH) that leads to a model for joint lifetimes without that separation. We study properties of mIPH class members and provide an adapted estimation procedure that allows for right-censoring and covariate information. We show that initial distribution vectors in our construction can be tailored to reflect the dependence of the random variables, and use multinomial regression to determine the influence of covariates on starting probabilities. Moreover, we highlight the flexibility and parsimony, in terms of needed phases, introduced by the time-inhomogeneity. Numerical illustrations are given for the famous data set of joint lifetimes of Frees et al. [15], where 10 phases turn out to be sufficient for a reasonable fitting performance. As a by-product, the proposed approach enables a natural causal interpretation of the association in the ageing mechanism of joint lifetimes that goes beyond a statistical fit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.01279

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zbMATH Keywords

censoringEM algorithmmortality modelingmultivariate PH distributions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05) Estimation in survival analysis and censored data (62N02) Characterization and structure theory for multivariate probability distributions; copulas (62H05) Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics (62P05)

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