In this paper, a nonparametric imputation method is developed for the additive hazards model when the censoring indicator is missing at random (MAR). The asymptotic properties of the proposed estimator are derived and the performance of the proposed estimator is demonstrated by a numerical...

<Para ID="Par1">In this paper, we present a method for estimating the conditional distribution function of the model error. Given the covariates, the conditional mean function is modeled as a partial linear model, and the conditional distribution function of model error is modeled as a single-index model. To...</para>

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In biomedical research and lifetime data analysis, the comparison of two hazard functions usually plays an important role in practice. In this thesis, we consider the standard independent two-sample framework under right censoring. We construct efficient and useful confidence intervals for the...