Marginal and Conditional Distribution Estimation from Double-sampled Semi-competing Risks Data

Marginal and Conditional Distribution Estimation from Double-sampled Semi-competing Risks Data

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Article ID: iaor201523754
Volume: 42
Issue: 1
Start Page Number: 87
End Page Number: 103
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Journal: Scandinavian Journal of Statistics
Authors: ,
Keywords: statistics: distributions, biology, medicine
Abstract:

Informative dropout is a vexing problem for any biomedical study. Most existing statistical methods attempt to correct estimation bias related to this phenomenon by specifying unverifiable assumptions about the dropout mechanism. We consider a cohort study in Africa that uses an outreach programme to ascertain the vital status for dropout subjects. These data can be used to identify a number of relevant distributions. However, as only a subset of dropout subjects were followed, vital status ascertainment was incomplete. We use semi‐competing risk methods as our analysis framework to address this specific case where the terminal event is incompletely ascertained and consider various procedures for estimating the marginal distribution of dropout and the marginal and conditional distributions of survival. We also consider model selection and estimation efficiency in our setting. Performance of the proposed methods is demonstrated via simulations, asymptotic study and analysis of the study data.

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