Parametric and Semiparametric Models with Applications to Reliability, Survival Analysis, and Quality of Life Book

1	Estimation in partly parametric additive Cox models	3
2	Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation in the proportional hazards model with covariate measurement error	13
3	Diagnostics for Cox's proportional hazards model	27
4	Semiparametric analysis of degradation and failure time data with covariates	41
5	On a degradation-failure model for repairable items	65
6	Comparison of parametric and semiparametric estimates in a degradation model with covariates and traumatic censoring	81
7	Accelerated life testing, fuzzy information and generalized probability	99
8	Asymptotic theory in rank estimation for AFT model under fixed censorship	107
9	An example of optimal design in accelerated experiments	121
10	Aspects of multivariate aging in exchangeable frailty models	135
11	Semiparametric models in the studies of aging and longevity	149
12	Semiparametric transformation models for arbitrarily censored and truncated data	167
13	EM algorithm for type-II right censored bivariate normal data	177
14	Statistical estimation based on interval censored data	211
15	The covariate order method for nonparametric exponential regression and some applications in other lifetime models	221
16	Effect of ignoring heterogeneity in hazards regression	239
17	An introduction to efficient estimation for semiparametric time series	253
18	Distance-based multivariate two sample tests	273
19	Empirical likelihood in nonparametric and semiparametric models	291
20	Goodness of fit tests of L[subscript 2]-type	307
21	Asymptotic properties of the CRT estimators for multicentre studies	333
22	HRQoL and concomitant adjusted mean residual life analysis	349
23	Semiparametric approach to the multivariate mixed Rasch model	363
24	Breast cancer prognosis using survival forests	385
25	Semiparametric versus parametric regression analysis based on the bounded cumulative hazard model : an application to breast cancer recurrence	399
26	Estimation of analytic spectral density of Gaussian stationary processes	419
27	Sub-optimal estimation of an unknown function from stationary noisy data	445
28	On parameter estimation by contaminated observations of ergodic diffusion processes	461
29	On parameter estimation for a position-dependent marking of a doubly stochastic Poisson process	473
30	Discrete time semi-Markov processes for reliability and survival analysis - a nonparametric estimation approach	487
31	Non-parametric estimation on lifetimes of subjects exposed to radiation from a semi-Markov process	503
32	An extension of Levy's formula to weighted Wiener processes	519
33	Sur l'Inegalite de Concentration de Doeblin-Levy, Rogozin-Kesten	533