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Truncation is a statistical phenomenon that occurs in many time to event studies. For example, autopsy-confirmed studies of neurodegenerative diseases are subject to an inherent left and right truncation, also known as double truncation.…
IMPORTANCE: Time-to-event outcomes are commonly used in clinical trials and biomarker discovery studies and have been primarily analyzed using Cox proportional hazards models. But it's unclear which statistical models should be recommended…
We consider the problem of estimating the distribution of time-to-event data that are subject to censoring and for which the event of interest might never occur, i.e., some subjects are cured. To model this kind of data in the presence of…
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