Prediction intervals for survival data.
This paper concerns large sample prediction intervals for the survival times of a future sample based on an initial sample of censored survival data. Simple procedures are developed for obtaining non-parametric and exponential prediction intervals for the future sample quantiles; the non-parametric interval results from inversion of an appropriate test statistic. A simulation study performed under various conditions evaluates the accuracy of the proposed intervals. An adjuvant chemotherapy study of breast cancer patients illustrates the methodology.
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000401:mortality; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009026:Mortality; D011336:Probability; D013997:Time Factors