Empirical Likelihood Semiparametric Regression Analysis under Random Censorship

This paper considers large sample inference for the regression parameter in a partly linear model for right censored data. We introduce an estimated empirical likelihood for the regression parameter and show that its limiting distribution is a mixture of central chi-squared distributions. A Monte Carlo method is proposed to approximate the limiting distribution. This enables one to make empirical likelihood-based inference for the regression parameter. We also develop an adjusted empirical likelihood method which only appeals to standard chi-square tables. Finite sample performance of the proposed methods is illustrated in a simulation study.

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