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SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF STATISTICS
Volume 29, Issue 1, Pages 57-74Publisher
BLACKWELL PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9469.00060
Keywords
cumulative regression functions; Cox-model; martingales; multiplicative intensity; non-parametrics; semi-parametrics; time-varying coefficients
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The proportional hazards assumption of the Cox model does sometimes not hold in practise. An example is a treatment effect that decreases with time. We study a general multiplicative intensity model allowing the influence of each covariate to vary non-parametrically with time. An efficient estimation procedure for the cumulative parameter functions is developed. Its properties are studied using the martingale structure of the problem. Furthermore, we introduce a partly parametric version of the general non-parametric model in which the influence of some of the covariates varies with time while the effects of the remaining covariates are constant. This semiparametric model has not been studied in detail before. An efficient procedure for estimating the parametric as well as the non-parametric components of this model is developed. Again the martingale structure of the model allows us to describe the asymptotic properties of the suggested estimators. The approach is applied to two different data sets, and: a Monte Carlo simulation is presented.
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