We consider a Bayesian dynamic pricing problem with an unknown distribution of customer willingness to pay (WTP). The posted price serves as either a leftor right-censoring point of the customer’s true WTP. This two-sided censoring effect makes the Bayesian dynamic pricing problem difficult to analyze. Little is known in the literature about how to solve this problem in its general form. In thi...

This paper considers nonparametric inference for duration times of two successive events. Since the second duration process becomes observable only if the first event has occurred, the length of the first duration affects the probability of the second duration being censored. Dependent censoring arises if the two duration times are correlated, which is often the case. Standard approaches to thi...

The association between maternal age of onset of dementia and amyloid deposition (measured by in vivo positron emission tomography (PET) imaging) in cognitively normal older offspring is of interest. In a regression model for amyloid, special methods are required due to the random right censoring of the covariate of maternal age of onset of dementia. Prior literature has proposed methods to add...

In this paper, we consider nonparametric copula inference under bivariate censoring. Based on an estimator of the joint cumulative distribution function, we define a discrete and two smooth estimators of the copula. The construction that we propose is valid for a large number of estimators of the distribution function, and therefore for a large number of bivariate censoring frameworks. Under so...

In many life-testing and reliability studies, the experimenter might not always obtain complete information on failure times for all experimental units. One of the most common censoring schemes is progressive type-II censoring. The aim of this paper is characterizing the parent distributions based on Shannon entropy of progressive type-II censored order statistics. It is shown that the equality...

Ž . are observed instead of the usual Y , Z , where I for some censori i i Y T 4 i i ing times T . This observation scheme is also called the binary choice model i Ž . Coslett 1987 and Case 1 interval censoring Groeneboom and Wellner Ž . 4 4 1992 . We assume that the errors are independent of Z , T and are i i i Ž . i.i.d. variables with a common distribution F t . Situations involving interval...

BACKGROUND The relation between methodological advances in estimation of confidence intervals (CIs) for incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICER) and estimation of cost effectiveness in the presence of censoring has not been explored. The authors address the joint problem of estimating ICER precision in the presence of censoring. METHODS Using patient-level data (n = 168) on cost and survi...