Date Available
6-28-2015
Year of Publication
2015
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
Statistics
First Advisor
Dr. Mai Zhou
Abstract
The confidence band represents an important measure of uncertainty associated with a functional estimator and empirical likelihood method has been proved to be a viable approach to constructing confidence bands in many cases. Using the empirical likelihood ratio principle, this dissertation developed simultaneous confidence bands for many functions of fundamental importance in survival analysis, including the survival function, the difference and ratio of survival functions, the hazards ratio function, and other parameters involving residual lifetimes. Covariate adjustment was incorporated under the proportional hazards assumption. The proposed method can be very useful when, for example, an individualized survival function is desired or a non-proportional hazards ratio is present in treatment effect assessment. Its large sample property was theoretically verified and the competitive finite sample performance was demonstrated by extensive numerical simulation studies.
Recommended Citation
Zhu, Shihong, "Empirical Likelihood Confidence Band" (2015). Theses and Dissertations--Statistics. 11.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/statistics_etds/11
