Nonparametric estimation

Abstract

We consider n individuals under study with individual multistate processes $(x-^{i}{t}) _{t\geq O,} X^{i} _{t} \epsilon {0,1,2,...,J} , i = 1,2,...n$ We assume that the n processes are, conditional on the initial states X(i) 0 , independent replicates of a multistate process as in Section 8.1. Observation of the individual multistate data is subject to a right-censoring time Ci and possibly also to a left-truncation time Li. We assume that right-censoring and left-truncation are independent as explained in Section 2.2.2.