Smoothed Bootstrap for Survival Function Inference

A new generalized smoothed bootstrap technique is presented for data including right-censored observations. The method is based on Banks’ bootstrap [2] and the right-censoring A (n) null assumption introduced by [7], which is a generalization of Hill’s A (n) null assumption [12]. We use two examples to show how the smoothed bootstrap is applied to make inferences about a survival function, namely an estimate of the survival function and...