The analysis of survival data from a central cancer registry with passive follow‐up
G. M. Tallis, P. Leppard, Terence J. O’Neill · Statistics in Medicine · 1988
We present analyses for survival data obtained from a central cancer registry with passive follow-up. This method of data collection has the potential to produce unknown random losses which would affect estimates of survival. We show that non-parametrically estimated conditional distributions remove any effect of these unknown losses and that a compound mixture model estimates their magnitude. Lung cancer data are used to illustrate the procedures.