A general Bayesian bootstrap for censored data based on the beta-Stacy process
Abstract
We introduce a novel procedure to perform Bayesian non-parametric inference with right-censored data, the \emph{beta-Stacy bootstrap}. This approximates the posterior law of summaries of the survival distribution (e.g. the mean survival time). More precisely, our procedure approximates the joint posterior law of functionals of the beta-Stacy process, a non-parametric process prior that generalizes the Dirichlet process and that is widely used in survival analysis. The beta-Stacy bootstrap generalizes and unifies other common Bayesian bootstraps for complete or censored data based on non-parametric priors. It is defined by an exact sampling algorithm that does not require tuning of Markov Chain Monte Carlo steps. We illustrate the beta-Stacy bootstrap by analyzing survival data from a real clinical trial.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- February 2020
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.2002.04081
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2002.04081
- Bibcode:
- 2020arXiv200204081A
- Keywords:
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- Statistics - Methodology;
- Mathematics - Statistics Theory;
- Statistics - Computation