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July, 1979 Confidence Bands for the Kaplan-Meier Survival Curve Estimate
Mary Jo Gillespie, Lloyd Fisher
Ann. Statist. 7(4): 920-924 (July, 1979). DOI: 10.1214/aos/1176344742

Abstract

The weak convergence of the Kaplan-Meier estimate for censored survival data to a Gaussian process is used to construct asymptotic confidence bands for the survival curves. The method involves transforming to obtain Brownian motion and using straight line boundaries and hitting probabilities for Brownian motion.

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Mary Jo Gillespie. Lloyd Fisher. "Confidence Bands for the Kaplan-Meier Survival Curve Estimate." Ann. Statist. 7 (4) 920 - 924, July, 1979. https://doi.org/10.1214/aos/1176344742

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Published: July, 1979
First available in Project Euclid: 12 April 2007

zbMATH: 0423.62085
MathSciNet: MR532256
Digital Object Identifier: 10.1214/aos/1176344742

Subjects:
Primary: 62E20
Secondary: 62E25 , 62G15

Keywords: Confidence band , Kaplan-Meier estimate , Monte Carlo study , survival curve

Rights: Copyright © 1979 Institute of Mathematical Statistics

Vol.7 • No. 4 • July, 1979
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