By providing a probabilistic model for nested case-control sampling in epidemiologic cohort studies, consistency and asymptotic normality of the maximum partial likelihood estimator of regression parameters in a Cox proportional hazards model can be derived using process and martingale theory as in Andersen and Gill. A general expression for the asymptotic variance is given and used to calculate asymptotic relative efficiencies relative to the full cohort variance in some important special cases.
@article{1176348895,
author = {Goldstein, Larry and Langholz, Bryan},
title = {Asymptotic Theory for Nested Case-Control Sampling in the Cox Regression Model},
journal = {Ann. Statist.},
volume = {20},
number = {1},
year = {1992},
pages = { 1903-1928},
language = {en},
url = {http://dml.mathdoc.fr/item/1176348895}
}
Goldstein, Larry; Langholz, Bryan. Asymptotic Theory for Nested Case-Control Sampling in the Cox Regression Model. Ann. Statist., Tome 20 (1992) no. 1, pp. 1903-1928. http://gdmltest.u-ga.fr/item/1176348895/