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Full-Text Articles in Survival Analysis
Parameter Estimation For Patient Enrollment In Clinical Trials, Junyan Liu
Parameter Estimation For Patient Enrollment In Clinical Trials, Junyan Liu
Undergraduate Honors Theses
In this paper, we study the Poisson-gamma model for recruitment time in clinical trials. We proved several properties of this model that match our intuitions from a reliability perspective, did simulations on this model, and used different optimization methods to estimate the parameters. Although the behaviors of the optimization methods were unfavorable and unstable, we identified certain conditions and provided potential explanations for this phenomenon and further insights into the Poisson-gamma model.
Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic Analytical Overview With Machine Learning Predictability, Anthony Tanaydin, Jingchen Liang, Daniel W. Engels
Sars-Cov-2 Pandemic Analytical Overview With Machine Learning Predictability, Anthony Tanaydin, Jingchen Liang, Daniel W. Engels
SMU Data Science Review
Understanding diagnostic tests and examining important features of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection are essential steps for controlling the current pandemic of 2020. In this paper, we study the relationship between clinical diagnosis and analytical features of patient blood panels from the US, Mexico, and Brazil. Our analysis confirms that among adults, the risk of severe illness from COVID-19 increases with pre-existing conditions such as diabetes and immunosuppression. Although more than eight months into pandemic, more data have become available to indicate that more young adults were getting infected. In addition, we expand on the definition of COVID-19 test and discuss …
An Analysis Of The Career Length Of Professional Basketball Players, Kwame D. Fynn, Morgan Sonnenschein
An Analysis Of The Career Length Of Professional Basketball Players, Kwame D. Fynn, Morgan Sonnenschein
The Macalester Review
An interesting problem in professional basketball is predicting how long a player remains in the NBA League. Previous research on this problem has focused on factors such as race, performance in games, and size. We propose to analyze career duration in the NBA based on awards won, position played and biological variables such as height. Using Accelerated Failure Time models, Cox Proportional Hazards models and Kaplan-Meier analyses, we determine that both height and number of awards won lengthen career duration; however, only certain player positions significantly affect career length of a player.
Survival Analysis With Large Dimensional Covariates: An Application In Microarray Studies, David A. Engler, Yi Li
Survival Analysis With Large Dimensional Covariates: An Application In Microarray Studies, David A. Engler, Yi Li
Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series
Use of microarray technology often leads to high-dimensional and low- sample size data settings. Over the past several years, a variety of novel approaches have been proposed for variable selection in this context. However, only a small number of these have been adapted for time-to-event data where censoring is present. Among standard variable selection methods shown both to have good predictive accuracy and to be computationally efficient is the elastic net penalization approach. In this paper, adaptation of the elastic net approach is presented for variable selection both under the Cox proportional hazards model and under an accelerated failure time …
Robust Inferences For Covariate Effects On Survival Time With Censored Linear Regression Models, Larry Leon, Tianxi Cai, L. J. Wei
Robust Inferences For Covariate Effects On Survival Time With Censored Linear Regression Models, Larry Leon, Tianxi Cai, L. J. Wei
Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series
Various inference procedures for linear regression models with censored failure times have been studied extensively. Recent developments on efficient algorithms to implement these procedures enhance the practical usage of such models in survival analysis. In this article, we present robust inferences for certain covariate effects on the failure time in the presence of "nuisance" confounders under a semiparametric, partial linear regression setting. Specifically, the estimation procedures for the regression coefficients of interest are derived from a working linear model and are valid even when the function of the confounders in the model is not correctly specified. The new proposals are …
A Hybrid Newton-Type Method For The Linear Regression In Case-Cohort Studies, Menggang Yu, Bin Nan
A Hybrid Newton-Type Method For The Linear Regression In Case-Cohort Studies, Menggang Yu, Bin Nan
The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series
Case-cohort designs are increasingly commonly used in large epidemiological cohort studies. Nan, Yu, and Kalbeisch (2004) provided the asymptotic results for censored linear regression models in case-cohort studies. In this article, we consider computational aspects of their proposed rank based estimating methods. We show that the rank based discontinuous estimating functions for case-cohort studies are monotone, a property established for cohort data in the literature, when generalized Gehan type of weights are used. Though the estimating problem can be formulated to a linear programming problem as that for cohort data, due to its easily uncontrollable large scale even for a …
Survival Analysis Using Auxiliary Variables Via Nonparametric Multiple Imputation, Chiu-Hsieh Hsu, Jeremy Taylor, Susan Murray, Daniel Commenges
Survival Analysis Using Auxiliary Variables Via Nonparametric Multiple Imputation, Chiu-Hsieh Hsu, Jeremy Taylor, Susan Murray, Daniel Commenges
The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series
We develop an approach, based on multiple imputation, that estimates the marginal survival distribution in survival analysis using auxiliary variable to recover information for censored observations. To conduct the imputation, we use two working survival model to define the nearest neighbor imputing risk set. One model is for the event times and the other for the censoring times. Based on the imputing risk set, two nonparametric multiple imputation methods are considered: risk set imputation, and Kaplan-Meier estimator. For both methods a future event or censoring time is imputed for each censored observation. With a categorical auxiliary variable, we show that …
On The Accelerated Failure Time Model For Current Status And Interval Censored Data, Lu Tian, Tianxi Cai
On The Accelerated Failure Time Model For Current Status And Interval Censored Data, Lu Tian, Tianxi Cai
Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series
This paper introduces a novel approach to making inference about the regression parameters in the accelerated failure time (AFT) model for current status and interval censored data. The estimator is constructed by inverting a Wald type test for testing a null proportional hazards model. A numerically efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) based resampling method is proposed to simultaneously obtain the point estimator and a consistent estimator of its variance-covariance matrix. We illustrate our approach with interval censored data sets from two clinical studies. Extensive numerical studies are conducted to evaluate the finite sample performance of the new estimators.
Loss-Based Cross-Validated Deletion/Substitution/Addition Algorithms In Estimation, Sandra E. Sinisi, Mark J. Van Der Laan
Loss-Based Cross-Validated Deletion/Substitution/Addition Algorithms In Estimation, Sandra E. Sinisi, Mark J. Van Der Laan
U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series
In van der Laan and Dudoit (2003) we propose and theoretically study a unified loss function based statistical methodology, which provides a road map for estimation and performance assessment. Given a parameter of interest which can be described as the minimizer of the population mean of a loss function, the road map involves as important ingredients cross-validation for estimator selection and minimizing over subsets of basis functions the empirical risk of the subset-specific estimator of the parameter of interest, where the basis functions correspond to a parameterization of a specified subspace of the complete parameter space. In this article we …
Kernel Estimation Of Rate Function For Recurrent Event Data, Chin-Tsang Chiang, Mei-Cheng Wang, Chiung-Yu Huang
Kernel Estimation Of Rate Function For Recurrent Event Data, Chin-Tsang Chiang, Mei-Cheng Wang, Chiung-Yu Huang
Johns Hopkins University, Dept. of Biostatistics Working Papers
Recurrent event data are largely characterized by the rate function but smoothing techniques for estimating the rate function have never been rigorously developed or studied in statistical literature. This paper considers the moment and least squares methods for estimating the rate function from recurrent event data. With an independent censoring assumption on the recurrent event process, we study statistical properties of the proposed estimators and propose bootstrap procedures for the bandwidth selection and for the approximation of confidence intervals in the estimation of the occurrence rate function. It is identified that the moment method without resmoothing via a smaller bandwidth …
Unified Cross-Validation Methodology For Selection Among Estimators And A General Cross-Validated Adaptive Epsilon-Net Estimator: Finite Sample Oracle Inequalities And Examples, Mark J. Van Der Laan, Sandrine Dudoit
Unified Cross-Validation Methodology For Selection Among Estimators And A General Cross-Validated Adaptive Epsilon-Net Estimator: Finite Sample Oracle Inequalities And Examples, Mark J. Van Der Laan, Sandrine Dudoit
U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series
In Part I of this article we propose a general cross-validation criterian for selecting among a collection of estimators of a particular parameter of interest based on n i.i.d. observations. It is assumed that the parameter of interest minimizes the expectation (w.r.t. to the distribution of the observed data structure) of a particular loss function of a candidate parameter value and the observed data structure, possibly indexed by a nuisance parameter. The proposed cross-validation criterian is defined as the empirical mean over the validation sample of the loss function at the parameter estimate based on the training sample, averaged over …
Semi-Parametric Box-Cox Power Transformation Models For Censored Survival Observations, Tianxi Cai, Lu Tian, L. J. Wei
Semi-Parametric Box-Cox Power Transformation Models For Censored Survival Observations, Tianxi Cai, Lu Tian, L. J. Wei
Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series
No abstract provided.
Statistical Inferences Based On Non-Smooth Estimating Functions, Lu Tian, Jun S. Liu, Mary Zhao, L. J. Wei
Statistical Inferences Based On Non-Smooth Estimating Functions, Lu Tian, Jun S. Liu, Mary Zhao, L. J. Wei
Harvard University Biostatistics Working Paper Series
No abstract provided.
Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of Ordered Multinomial Parameters , Nicholas P. Jewell, Jack Kalbfleisch
Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of Ordered Multinomial Parameters , Nicholas P. Jewell, Jack Kalbfleisch
The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series
The pool-adjacent violator-algorithm (Ayer et al., 1955) has long been known to give the maximum likelihood estimator of a series of ordered binomial parameters, based on an independent observation from each distribution (see, Barlow et al., 1972). This result has immediate application to estimation of a survival distribution based on current survival status at a set of monitoring times. This paper considers an extended problem of maximum likelihood estimation of a series of ‘ordered’ multinomial parameters pi = (p1i, p2i, . . . , pmi) for 1 < = I < = k, where ordered means that pj1 < = pj2 < = .. . < = pjk for each j with 1 < = j < = m-1. The data consist of k independent observations X1, . . . ,Xk where Xi has a multinomial distribution with probability parameter pi and known index ni > = 1. By making use of variants of the pool adjacent violator algorithm, …
Double Robust Estimation In Longitudinal Marginal Structural Models, Zhuo Yu, Mark J. Van Der Laan
Double Robust Estimation In Longitudinal Marginal Structural Models, Zhuo Yu, Mark J. Van Der Laan
U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series
Consider estimation of causal parameters in a marginal structural model for the discrete intensity of the treatment specific counting process (e.g. hazard of a treatment specific survival time) based on longitudinal observational data on treatment, covariates and survival. We assume the sequential randomization assumption (SRA) on the treatment assignment mechanism and the so called experimental treatment assignment assumption which is needed to identify the causal parameters from the observed data distribution. Under SRA, the likelihood of the observed data structure factorizes in the auxiliary treatment mechanism and the partial likelihood consisting of the product over time of conditional distributions of …
Bivariate Current Status Data, Mark J. Van Der Laan, Nicholas P. Jewell
Bivariate Current Status Data, Mark J. Van Der Laan, Nicholas P. Jewell
U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series
In many applications, it is often of interest to estimate a bivariate distribution of two survival random variables. Complete observation of such random variables is often incomplete. If one only observes whether or not each of the individual survival times exceeds a common observed monitoring time C, then the data structure is referred to as bivariate current status data (Wang and Ding, 2000). For such data, we show that the identifiable part of the joint distribution is represented by three univariate cumulative distribution functions, namely the two marginal cumulative distribution functions, and the bivariate cumulative distribution function evaluated on the …
Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of Ordered Multinomial Parameters, Nicholas P. Jewell, John D. Kalbfleisch
Maximum Likelihood Estimation Of Ordered Multinomial Parameters, Nicholas P. Jewell, John D. Kalbfleisch
U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series
The pool-adjacent violator-algorithm (Ayer, et al., 1955) has long been known to give the maximum likelihood estimator of a series of ordered binomial parameters, based on an independent observation from each distribution (see Barlow et al., 1972). This result has immediate application to estimation of a survival distribution based on current survival status at a set of monitoring times. This paper considers an extended problem of maximum likelihood estimation of a series of ‘ordered’ multinomial parameters. By making use of variants of the pool adjacent violator algorithm, we obtain a simple algorithm to compute the maximum likelihood estimator and demonstrate …