Cure models have been developed to analyze failure time data with a cured fraction. For such data, standard survival models are usually not appropriate because they do not account for the possibility of cure. Mixture cure models assume that the studied population is a mixture of susceptible...

Selection of estimators is an essential task in modeling. A general framework is that the estimators of a distribution are obtained by minimizing a function (the estimating function) and assessed using another function (the assessment function). A classical case is that both functions estimate...

Cognition is not directly measurable. It is assessed using psychometric tests, which can be viewed as quantitative measures of cognition with error. The aim of this article is to propose a model to describe the evolution in continuous time of unobserved cognition in the elderly and assess the...