TY - JOUR AU - Hamad, Farag AU - Salem Abdulkarim, AU - Ayman Hamad, PY - 2022/05/29 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Mixture method to estimate baseline hazard for non-arbitrary function of the Cox proportional model JF - International Journal of Sciences: Basic and Applied Research (IJSBAR) JA - IJSBAR VL - 62 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://gssrr.org/index.php/JournalOfBasicAndApplied/article/view/14023 SP - 235-248 AB - <p>This study is extended to the work that was published by (Hamad &amp; Kachouie, 2019). In this paper, a mixture method was used to estimate the Gompertz distribution parameters using hazard and cumulative hazard functions. This mixture method depends on the two different models (semi-parametric model, and nonparametric model). Cox proportional hazard model and Kaplan Meier used to estimate the Gompertz distribution parameters. The parameters of the logistic function (RHS) in the Cox proportional hazard can be estimated by the partial likelihood method. The hazard function (LHS) in the Cox model can be estimated by Kaplan Meier. The estimated parametric of the logistic function combined with the nonparametric estimate of the survival function by Kaplan Meier in order to get an estimate of the baseline hazard for Gompertz distribution. Improvement was archived in the estimated parameters of the baseline hazard using the mixture method compared to the use of the Cox method. The improvement of the mixture method was measured based on the estimated parameters for the baseline hazard as well as by the model goodness of fit. Different data types (simulation and real data) were used to measure the improvement of the mixture method. Monte Carlo simulations were carried out for evaluating the proposed method’s performance. The results showed that the mixture method provided a better estimate value of the baseline and the model parameters compared to the estimated values using the Cox model.</p> ER -