A nonparametric latency estimator for mixture cure models is studied in
this paper. An i.i.d. representation is obtained, the asymptotic mean squared error
of the latency estimator is found, and its asymptotic normality is proven. A bootstrap
bandwidth selection method is introduced and its efficiency is evaluated in a simulation
study. The proposed methods are applied to a dataset of colorectal cancer patients in
the University Hospital of A Coruña (CHUAC).

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