Journal
BIOMETRICS
Volume 59, Issue 4, Pages 837-848Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2003.00098.x
Keywords
Clayton model; copula; Cox model; efficiency; multivariate lifetimes; piecewise constant hazards; robustness; spline functions
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This article presents methodology for multivariate proportional hazards (PH) regression models. The methods employ flexible piecewise constant or spline specifications for baseline hazard functions in either marginal or conditional PH models, along with assumptions about the association among lifetimes. Because the models are parametric, ordinary maximum likelihood can be applied; it is able to deal easily with such data features as interval censoring or sequentially observed lifetimes, unlike existing semiparametric methods. A bivariate Clayton model (1978, Biometrika 65, 141-151) is used to illustrate the approach taken. Because a parametric assumption about association is made, efficiency and robustness comparisons are made between estimation based on the bivariate Clayton model and working independence methods that specify only marginal distributions for each lifetime variable.
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