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Div. of Mathematical Statistics
Problem 1.
a) E ( X ) = µ = mrl (0) = 0 + 10 = 10
∞ ∞
− S ( x) mrl ( x) − ∫ S ( t ) dt ⋅ mrl ' ( x)
∫ S (t )dt
d d mrl ( x ) =
h ( x ) = − ln S ( x ) = − ln x = −∞ ⋅ x
2
dx dx mrl ( x ) [ mrl ( x)]
∫ S (t )dt
x
b)
∞
∫ S ( t ) dt ⋅ mrl ( x)
'
S ( x) S (x ) mrl ' ( x) 1 + mrl ' ( x)
∞
+ x
∞
= + =
mrl ( x ) ⋅ S ( x ) mrl ( x ) mrl ( x )
∫ S (t ) dt ∫ S (t )dt ⋅ mrl ( x )
x x
(
exp − ln( x + 10) + ln( 10) = exp ln
2 2
) 100
=
2
100
( x + 10) ( x + 10)
2
Problem 2.
We have a three complete observed survival times (0.5, 1, 0.75) and two left-censored (0.25,
1.25).
3 5
L(α , λ ) = ∏ f (T j ) ∏ (1 − S ( L j ) ) where T j is observed lifetime and L j left censoring
j =1 j= 4
time for individual j. For log- logistic distribution we have
αλx α −1 1
f (x ) = S ( x) =
(1 + λx α ) 2 1 + λx α
where t i - time point for remission, d i - number of symptoms free patients at times t i , Yi -
number of individuals in the study before time point t i .
a) Kaplan-Meier estimator:
d d 10 9 7 6 4 3 1
Sˆ ( 48) = ∏ 1 − i = ∏ 1 − i = = 0.184
t ≤t
i
Yi t ≤23 Yi
i 11 10 8 7 5 4 2
b)
di 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
σ S2 ( 48) = ∑ = + + + + + + = 0.6952
t ≤ 48 Yi (Yi − d i )
i
11 ⋅10 10 ⋅ 9 8 ⋅ 7 7 ⋅ 6 5 ⋅ 4 4 ⋅ 3 2 ⋅1
Log-transformation is:
Z σ (t ) 1.96 ⋅ 0.6952
Sˆ (t 0 ) 1 / θ ≤ S ( t 0 ) ≤ Sˆ (t 0 ) θ där θ = exp 1−α / 2 S 0 = exp = 0.3808
( 0)
ln Sˆ (t )
ln( 0 . 184 )
Problem 4.
H 0 : h( t ) = h0 (t ) = λ = 1 / 1000 = 0.001
7 0 < t ≤ 353
6 353 < t ≤ 572
Y ( t ) = 5 572 < t ≤ 877
4 877 < t ≤ 988
3 t > 988
Problem 5.
Problem 6.
w
For θ = 1 we have f W ( w) = e w e −e = e w −e and SW ( w) = − ∫ f W (u ) du = e −e
w w w
0
So the survival function for X is
ln x − µ − λ' Z
S X ( x) = P ( X > x) = P (ln X > ln x ) = P( µ + γ Z + σW > ln x) = P W > =
'
σ
ln x − µ − γ ' Z ln x − µ − γ ' Z µ + γ 'Z
= SW = exp − exp = exp − x1 / σ exp −
σ σ σ
which is the survival function in the Weibull distribution with the parameters α = 1 / σ and
λ = exp( −( µ + γ ' Z ) / σ ).