Nonparametric Estimation of a Delay Distribution Based on Left‐Censored and Right‐Truncated Data
- 1 June 1999
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Biometrics
- Vol. 55 (2) , 345-349
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.0006-341x.1999.00345.x
Abstract
Summary.This paper proposes a nonparametric method for estimating a delay distribution based on left‐censored and right‐truncated data. A variance‐covariance estimator is provided. The method is applied to the Australian AIDS data in which some data are left censored and some data are not left censored. This situation arises with AIDS case‐reporting data in Australia because reporting delays were recorded only from November 1990 rather than from the beginning of the epidemic there. It is shown that inclusion of the left‐censored data, as opposed to analyzing only the uncensored data, improves the precision of the estimate.Keywords
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