Proportional hazards under Conway–Maxwell-Poisson cure rate model and associated inference

Cure rate models or long-term survival models play an important role in survival analysis and some other applied fields. In this article, by assuming a Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution under a competing cause scenario, we study a flexible cure rate model in which the lifetimes of non-cured individuals are described by a Cox's proportional hazard model with a Weibull hazard as the baseline function. Inference is then developed for a right …