Estimators of the ratio of means of paired survival data

R.G. Knapp Department of Biometry, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C, 29425

A.J. Gross Department of Biometry, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, S.C, 29425

A.B. Cantor Veterans Administration Cooperative Studies Center, Hines, Illinoiis, 60141

Abstract

A model for the joint distribution of paired survival times (X_j:, Y_j:) based on certain natural assumptions appropriate for biological data generated in clinical trial type settings is derived and characterized. Using this model, the distribution of T=Y/X is found. Both a consistent estimator and an unbiased estimator of ζ, the parameter of the distribution of T, are obtained.

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