Dependent censoring occurs in longitudinal studies of recurrent events when the censoring time depends on the potentially unobserved recurrent event times. To perform regression analysis in this setting, we propose a semiparametric joint model that formulates the marginal distributions of the...

We consider a mixture model approach to the regression analysis of competing-risks data. Attention is focused on inference concerning the effects of factors on both the probability of occurrence and the hazard rate conditional on each of the failure types. These two quantities are specified in...

The cause for the observed trends in prostate cancer mortality is unclear. Several authors have indicated that incorrectly classified causes of death have played a role in recent mortality trends. This dissertation is devoted to analyzing competing risks survival data with a misclassified cause...