The paper proposes a new nonparametric prior for two-dimensional vectors of survival functions . The definition is based on the Lévy copula and it is used to model, in a nonparametric Bayesian framework, two-sample survival data. Such an application yields a natural extension of the more familiar neutral to the right process of Doksum (1974) adopted for drawing inferences on single survival functions. We then obtain a description of the posterior distribution of , conditionally on possibly right-censored data. As a by-product, we find that the marginal distribution of a pair of observations from the two samples coincides with the Marshall-Olkin or the Weibull distribution according to specific choices of the marginal Lévy measures.

Nonparametric priors for vectors of survival functions

EPIFANI, ILENIA;
2010-01-01

Abstract

The paper proposes a new nonparametric prior for two-dimensional vectors of survival functions . The definition is based on the Lévy copula and it is used to model, in a nonparametric Bayesian framework, two-sample survival data. Such an application yields a natural extension of the more familiar neutral to the right process of Doksum (1974) adopted for drawing inferences on single survival functions. We then obtain a description of the posterior distribution of , conditionally on possibly right-censored data. As a by-product, we find that the marginal distribution of a pair of observations from the two samples coincides with the Marshall-Olkin or the Weibull distribution according to specific choices of the marginal Lévy measures.
2010
Bayesian nonparametrics; completely random measures; dependent stable processes; Lévy copulas; right-censored data; survival function
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