Bayesian bivariate survival estimation
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| author | Ghosh, J. K. Hjort, Nils Lid Messan, C. Ramamoorthi, R. V. |
| author_facet | Ghosh, J. K. Hjort, Nils Lid Messan, C. Ramamoorthi, R. V. |
| contents | There is no easy extension of Kaplan-Meier and Nelson-Aalen estimators to the bivariate case, and estimating bivariate survival distributions nonparametrically is associated with various non-trivial problems. The Dabrowska estimator will for example associate negative mass to some subsets. Bayesian methods hold some promise as they will avoid the negative mass problem, butare also prone to difficulties. We simplify and extend an example by Pruitt to show that the posterior distribution from a Dirichlet process prior is inconsistent. We construct a different nonparametric prior via Beta processes and provide an updating scheme that utilizes only the most relevant parts of the likelihood, and show that this leads to a consistent estimator. |
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| spellingShingle | Bayesian bivariate survival estimation Ghosh, J. K. Hjort, Nils Lid Messan, C. Ramamoorthi, R. V. Statistics Theory There is no easy extension of Kaplan-Meier and Nelson-Aalen estimators to the bivariate case, and estimating bivariate survival distributions nonparametrically is associated with various non-trivial problems. The Dabrowska estimator will for example associate negative mass to some subsets. Bayesian methods hold some promise as they will avoid the negative mass problem, butare also prone to difficulties. We simplify and extend an example by Pruitt to show that the posterior distribution from a Dirichlet process prior is inconsistent. We construct a different nonparametric prior via Beta processes and provide an updating scheme that utilizes only the most relevant parts of the likelihood, and show that this leads to a consistent estimator. |
| title | Bayesian bivariate survival estimation |
| topic | Statistics Theory |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.11819 |