John D. Kalbfleisch

  1. Block-Conditional Missing at Random Models for Missing Data.

    Authors: John D. Kalbfleisch, Yan Zhou, Roderick J. A. Little
    Subjects: Methodology
    Abstract

    Two major ideas in the analysis of missing data are (a) the EM algorithm
    [Dempster, Laird and Rubin, J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 39 (1977) 1--38] for
    maximum likelihood (ML) estimation, and (b) the formulation of models for the
    joint distribution of the data ${Z}$ and missing data indicators ${M}$, and
    associated "missing at random"; (MAR) condition under which a model for ${M}$
    is unnecessary [Rubin, Biometrika 63 (1976) 581--592].

  2. Asymptotic theory for the semiparametric accelerated failure time model with missing data.

    Authors: Bin Nan, John D. Kalbfleisch, Menggang Yu
    Subjects: gr. Statistics
    Abstract

    We consider a class of doubly weighted rank-based estimating methods for the
    transformation (or accelerated failure time) model with missing data as arise,
    for example, in case-cohort studies. The weights considered may not be
    predictable as required in a martingale stochastic process formulation. We
    treat the general problem as a semiparametric estimating equation problem and
    provide proofs of asymptotic properties for the weighted estimators, with
    either true weights or estimated weights, by using empirical process theory
    where martingale theory may fail.

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