Abstract
Recently Cheng, Wei & Ying (1995, 1997) proposed a class of estimation procedures for semiparametric linear transformation models with censored observations. When the support of the censoring variable is shorter than that of the failure time, the estimators are asymptotically biased. In this paper, we present a simple modification of Cheng's estimation procedures for the regression parameters. Through extensive numerical studies with practical sample sizes, we find that the new proposals perform well, but the original interval estimators may not have correct coverage probabilities when censoring is heavy. Prediction procedures for the survival probabilities of future subjects are also modified accordingly.
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