Consistency of the Semi-parametric MLE under the Cox Model with Linearly Time-dependent Covariates and Interval-censored Data

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Yu and Diao [1] studied the estimation problem under the Cox model with linearly time-dependent covariates and with interval-censored (IC) data under the distribution-free set-up.They proposed a modified semi-parametric MLE (MSMLE) and the simulation results suggest that the MSMLE is consistent.In this paper, we establish the consistency of the MSMLE.