Modeling traumatic brain injury lifetime data: Improved estimators for the Generalized Gamma distribution under small samples.

ABSTRACT: In this paper, from the practical point of view, we focus on modeling traumatic brain injury data considering different stages of hospitalization, related to patients' survival rates following traumatic brain injury caused by traffic accidents. From the statistical point of view, the primary objective is related to overcoming the limited number of traumatic brain injury patients available for studying by considering different estimation methods to obtain improved estimators of the model parameters, which can be recommended to be used in the presence of small samples. To have a general methodology, at least in principle, we consider the very flexible Generalized Gamma distribution. We compare various estimation methods using extensive numerical simulations. The results reveal that the penal

SUBMITTER: Ramos PL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6716661 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature