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A non-parametric test for testing independence between time to failure and cause of failure of discrete competing risks data

Authors :
P., Sreedevi E.
K., Sudheesh K.
Dewan, Isha
Publication Year :
2021

Abstract

Competing risks data with discrete lifetime comes up in practice. However, only limited literature exists for such data. In this paper, we propose a non-parametric test based on U-statistics for testing independence of time to failure and cause of failure of competing risks data when the lifetime is a discrete random variable. Asymptotic distribution of the proposed test statistic is derived. An extensive Monte Carlo simulation study is conducted to assess the finite sample performance of the proposed test. The flexibility of the testing procedure is illustrated using real data sets on oral cancer patients and drug exposed pregnancies.

Subjects

Subjects :
Statistics - Methodology

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.2105.12325
Document Type :
Working Paper