Confidence regions in Cox proportional hazards model with measurement errors and unbounded parameter set
Volume 5, Issue 1 (2018), pp. 37–52
Pub. online: 31 January 2018
Type: Research Article
Open Access
Received
16 January 2018
16 January 2018
Revised
17 January 2018
17 January 2018
Accepted
17 January 2018
17 January 2018
Published
31 January 2018
31 January 2018
Abstract
Cox proportional hazards model with measurement errors is considered. In Kukush and Chernova (2017), we elaborated a simultaneous estimator of the baseline hazard rate $\lambda (\cdot )$ and the regression parameter β, with the unbounded parameter set $\varTheta =\varTheta _{\lambda }\times \varTheta _{\beta }$, where $\varTheta _{\lambda }$ is a closed convex subset of $C[0,\tau ]$ and $\varTheta _{\beta }$ is a compact set in ${\mathbb{R}}^{m}$. The estimator is consistent and asymptotically normal. In the present paper, we construct confidence intervals for integral functionals of $\lambda (\cdot )$ and a confidence region for β under restrictions on the error distribution. In particular, we handle the following cases: (a) the measurement error is bounded, (b) it is a normally distributed random vector, and (c) it has independent components which are shifted Poisson random variables.
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