Cox proportional hazard model and non-randomly selected sample
Are there any methods to correct bias in Cox proportional hazard model caused by non-randomly selected sample (something like Heckman’s correction)?
Background:
Lets say the situation looks as follows:
During first two years all clients are accepted.
After those two years a Cox PH model is build. Model predicts how long clients will use our service.
Due to the policy of the company from now on only clients with probability of surviving 3 month greater than 0.5 are accepted, the others are rejected.
After another two years a new model needs to be built. The problem is that we have target only for accepted clients and using only these clients might cause some serious bias.
There are proposed solutions to parametric hazard models. Take a look at these:
There is code for the later paper in Stata, package “dursel”
However, I am not aware of a solution for the semiparametric Cox model.