Dependence modeling for recurrent event times subject to right-censoring with D-vine copulas Hasselt University
In many time-to-event studies, the event of interest is recurrent. Here, the data for each sample unit correspond to a series of gap times between the subsequent events. Given a limited follow-up period, the last gap time might be right-censored. In contrast to classical analysis, gap times and censoring times cannot be assumed independent, i.e., the sequential nature of the data induces dependent censoring. Also, the number of recurrences ...