Current status data with competing risks: Consistency and rates of Convergence of the MLE
arXiv:math/0609020 · doi:10.1214/009053607000000974
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 . 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.
Published in at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/009053607000000974 the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
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