Hospital readmission is a key marker of quality of health care. Notwithstanding its
widespread use, however, it remains controversial in part because statistical methods used …

In the USA, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services use 30-day readmission,
following hospitalization, as a proxy outcome to monitor quality of care. These efforts …

A semicompeting risks problem involves two-types of events: a nonterminal and a terminal
event (death). Typically, the nonterminal event is the focus of the study, but the terminal …

The estimation of loss reserves for incurred but not reported (IBNR) claims presents an
important task for insurance companies to predict their liabilities. Recently, individual claim …

Abstract Analysis of semi-competing risks data is becoming increasingly important in
medical research in which a subject may experience both nonterminal and terminal events …

Semi-competing risks refer to the setting where primary scientific interest lies in estimation
and inference with respect to a non-terminal event, the occurrence of which is subject to a …

Ultrahigh-dimensional gene features are often collected in modern cancer studies in which
the number of gene features p is extremely larger than sample size n. While gene …

The ability to predict failures in hard disk drives (HDDs) is a major objective of HDD
manufacturers since avoiding unexpected failures may prevent data loss, improve service …

In this paper, a copula-graphic estimator is proposed for censored survival data. It is
assumed that there is some dependent censoring acting on the variable of interest that may …

We study nonparametric estimators of conditional Kendall's tau, a measure of concordance
between two random variables given some covariates. We prove non-asymptotic pointwise …