Recurrent event data arise in many biomedical longitudinal studies when health-related events can occur repeatedly for each subject during the follow-up time. In this article, we examine the gap times between recurrent events. We propose a new semiparametric accelerated gap time model based on the trend-renewal process which contains trend and renewal components that allow for the intensity function to vary between successive events. We use the Buckley-James imputation approach to deal with censored transformed gap times. The proposed estimators are shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal. Model diagnostic plots of residuals and a method for predicting number of recurrent events given specified covariates and follow-up time are also presented. Simulation studies are conducted to assess finite sample performance of the proposed method. The proposed technique is demonstrated through an application to two real data sets.
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