Current status data with competing risks: consistency and rates of convergence of the MLE

DOI10.1214/009053607000000974zbMATH Open1360.62123arXivmath/0609020OpenAlexW2055114099WikidataQ57707434 ScholiaQ57707434MaRDI QIDQ930644FDOQ930644

Jon A. Wellner, Marloes H. Maathuis, Piet Groeneboom

Publication date: 1 July 2008

Published in: The Annals of Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We study nonparametric estimation of the sub-distribution functions for current status data with competing risks. Our main interest is in the nonparametric maximum likelihood estimator (MLE), and for comparison we also consider a simpler ``naive estimator. Both types of estimators were studied by Jewell, van der Laan and Henneman [Biometrika (2003) 90 183--197], but little was known about their large sample properties. We have started to fill this gap, by proving that the estimators are consistent and converge globally and locally at rate $n^{1/3}$. We also show that this local rate of convergence is optimal in a minimax sense. The proof of the local rate of convergence of the MLE uses new methods, and relies on a rate result for the sum of the MLEs of the sub-distribution functions which holds uniformly on a fixed neighborhood of a point. Our results are used in Groeneboom, Maathuis and Wellner [Ann. Statist. (2008) 36 1064--1089] to obtain the local limiting distributions of the estimators.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0609020

zbMATH Keywords

competing risksconsistencymaximum likelihoodrate of convergencesurvival analysiscurrent status data

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Censored data models (62N01)

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