Estimating cure rates from survival data: an alternative to two-component mixture models

AD Tsodikov, JG Ibrahim… - Journal of the American …, 2003‏ - Taylor & Francis
This article considers the utility of the bounded cumulative hazard model in cure rate
estimation, which is an appealing alternative to the widely used two-component mixture …

[كتاب][B] Stochastic models of tumor latency and their biostatistical applications

AY Yakovlev, AD Tsodikov, B Asselain - 1996‏ - books.google.com
This research monograph discusses newly developed mathematical models and methods
that provide biologically meaningful inferences from data on cancer latency produced by …

Carcinogenesis models for risk assessment

A Kopp-Schneider - Statistical methods in medical research, 1997‏ - journals.sagepub.com
This article provides an overview of different types of carcinogenesis models and discusses
their use for risk assessment. One class of model, the multistage model, is especially suited …

Destructive weighted Poisson cure rate models

J Rodrigues, M de Castro, N Balakrishnan… - Lifetime data …, 2011‏ - Springer
In this paper, we develop a flexible cure rate survival model by assuming the number of
competing causes of the event of interest to follow a compound weighted Poisson …

A simplified stochastic EM algorithm for cure rate model with negative binomial competing risks: an application to breast cancer data

S Pal - Statistics in Medicine, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
In this article, a long‐term survival model under competing risks is considered. The
unobserved number of competing risks is assumed to follow a negative binomial distribution …

[كتاب][B] Stochastic models with applications to genetics, cancers, AIDS and other biomedical systems

WY Tan - 2015‏ - books.google.com
" This book presents a systematic treatment of Markov chains, diffusion processes and state
space models, as well as alternative approaches to Markov chains through stochastic …

Destructive negative binomial cure rate model and EM-based likelihood inference under Weibull lifetime

S Pal, N Balakrishnan - Statistics & Probability Letters, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Destructive negative binomial cure rate model and EM-based likelihood inference under
Weibull lifetime - ScienceDirect Skip to main contentSkip to article Elsevier logo Journals & …

Likelihood inference for flexible cure rate models with gamma lifetimes

N Balakrishnan, S Pal - Communications in Statistics-Theory and …, 2015‏ - Taylor & Francis
A flexible cure rate survival model was developed by Rodrigues et al. by assuming the
competing cause variable to follow the Conway-Maxwell Poisson distribution. This model …

Correlated destructive generalized power series cure rate models and associated inference with an application to a cutaneous melanoma data

P Borges, J Rodrigues, N Balakrishnan - Computational Statistics & Data …, 2012‏ - Elsevier
In this paper, we propose a new cure rate survival model, which extends the model of
Rodrigues et al.(2011) by incorporating a structure of dependence between the initiated …

[HTML][HTML] A non-mixture cure model for right-censored data with Fréchet distribution

DH Kutal, L Qian - Stats, 2018‏ - mdpi.com
This paper considers a non-mixture cure model for right-censored data. It utilizes the
maximum likelihood method to estimate model parameters in the non-mixture cure model …