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Variance Estimation In Inverse Probability Weighted Cox Models, Di Shu, Jessica G. Young, Sengwee Toh, Rui Wang Jan 2019

Variance Estimation In Inverse Probability Weighted Cox Models, Di Shu, Jessica G. Young, Sengwee Toh, Rui Wang

Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Inverse probability weighted Cox models can be used to estimate marginal hazard ratios under different treatments interventions in observational studies. To obtain variance estimates, the robust sandwich variance estimator is often recommended to account for the induced correlation among weighted observations. However, this estimator does not incorporate the uncertainty in estimating the weights and tends to overestimate the variance, leading to inefficient inference. Here we propose a new variance estimator that combines the estimation procedures for the hazard ratio and weights using stacked estimating equations, with additional adjustments for the sum of non-independent and identically distributed terms in a Cox …


Histospline Method In Nonparametric Regression Models With Application To Clustered/Longitudinal Data, Raymond J. Carroll, Peter Hall, Tatiyana V. Apanasovich, Xihong Lin Sep 2003

Histospline Method In Nonparametric Regression Models With Application To Clustered/Longitudinal Data, Raymond J. Carroll, Peter Hall, Tatiyana V. Apanasovich, Xihong Lin

The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

Kernel and smoothing methods for nonparametric function and curve estimation have been particularly successful in "standard" settings, where function values are observed subject to independent errors. However, when aspects of the function are known parametrically, or where the sampling scheme has significant structure, it can be quite difficult to adapt standard methods in such a way that they retain good statistical performance and continue to enjoy easy computability and good numerical properties. In particular, when using local linear modeling it is often awkward to both respect the sampling scheme and produce an estimator with good variance properties, without resorting to …


Efficient Semiparametric Marginal Estimation For Longitudinal/Clustered Data, Naisyin Wang, Raymond J. Carroll, Xihong Lin Sep 2003

Efficient Semiparametric Marginal Estimation For Longitudinal/Clustered Data, Naisyin Wang, Raymond J. Carroll, Xihong Lin

The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

We consider marginal generalized semiparametric partially linear models for clustered data. Lin and Carroll (2001a) derived the semiparametric efficinet score funtion for this problem in the mulitvariate Gaussian case, but they were unable to contruct a semiparametric efficient estimator that actually achieved the semiparametric information bound. We propose such an estimator here and generalize the work to marginal generalized partially liner models. Asymptotic relative efficincies of the estimation or throughout are investigated. The finite sample performance of these estimators is evaluated through simulations and illustrated using a longtiudinal CD4 count data set. Both theoretical and numerical results indicate that properly …