Destructive cure models with proportional hazards lifetimes and associated likelihood inference

In survival analysis, cure models have gained much importance due to rapid advancements in medical sciences. More recently, a subset of cure models, called destructive cure models, have been studied extensively under competing risks scenario wherein initial competing risks undergo a destructive process. In this article, we study destructive cure models by assuming a flexible weighted Poisson distribution (exponentially weighted Poisson, length …