IJSRP Logo
International Journal of Scientific and Research Publications

IJSRP, Volume 4, Issue 10, October 2014 Edition [ISSN 2250-3153]


Linear Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation of Individual and Population slopes in the presence of Informative Right Censoring
      Viswanathan.N, Ravanan.R
Abstract: Estimation of individual and population slopes using Linear Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation by Wu and Bailey (1988) is applied for incomplete longitudinal studies. In these studies the right censoring process is considered informative, in which the number of observations made for each subject is assumed to vary depending on the rate of change or slope of the individual response variable. This process of ‘missing not at random’ poses problems in the estimation of the slope parameters. The proposed method provides better estimates under different parametric models for the censoring distribution. The method’s performance is studied through a simulation study under Standard Normal and Uniform censoring distributions.

Reference this Research Paper (copy & paste below code):

Viswanathan.N, Ravanan.R (2018); Linear Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimation of Individual and Population slopes in the presence of Informative Right Censoring; Int J Sci Res Publ 4(10) (ISSN: 2250-3153). http://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-1014.php?rp=P343259
©️ Copyright 2011-2023 IJSRP - All rights reserved. Use of this web site signifies your agreement to the terms and conditions.