Browsing by Subject "Cumulative incidence function"

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    Joint modeling of longitudinal and competing-risk data using cumulative incidence functions for the failure submodels accounting for potential failure cause misclassification through double sampling
    (Oxford University Press, 2023) Thomadakis, Christos; Meligkotsidou, Loukia; Yiannoutsos, Constantin T.; Touloumi, Giota; Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
    Most of the literature on joint modeling of longitudinal and competing-risk data is based on cause-specific hazards, although modeling of the cumulative incidence function (CIF) is an easier and more direct approach to evaluate the prognosis of an event. We propose a flexible class of shared parameter models to jointly model a normally distributed marker over time and multiple causes of failure using CIFs for the survival submodels, with CIFs depending on the “true” marker value over time (i.e., removing the measurement error). The generalized odds rate transformation is applied, thus a proportional subdistribution hazards model is a special case. The requirement that the all-cause CIF should be bounded by 1 is formally considered. The proposed models are extended to account for potential failure cause misclassification, where the true failure causes are available in a small random sample of individuals. We also provide a multistate representation of the whole population by defining mutually exclusive states based on the marker values and the competing risks. Based solely on the assumed joint model, we derive fully Bayesian posterior samples for state occupation and transition probabilities. The proposed approach is evaluated in a simulation study and, as an illustration, it is fitted to real data from people with HIV.
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    Semiparametric regression and risk prediction with competing risks data under missing cause of failure
    (Lifetime Data Analysis, 2020-01-25) Bakoyannis, Giorgos; Zhang, Ying; Yiannoutsos, Constantin T.
    The cause of failure in cohort studies that involve competing risks is frequently incompletely observed. To address this, several methods have been proposed for the semiparametric proportional cause-specific hazards model under a missing at random assumption. However, these proposals provide inference for the regression coefficients only, and do not consider the infinite dimensional parameters, such as the covariatespecific cumulative incidence function. Nevertheless, the latter quantity is essential for risk prediction in modern medicine. In this paper we propose a unified framework for inference about both the regression coefficients of the proportional cause-specific hazards model and the covariate-specific cumulative incidence functions under missing at random cause of failure. Our approach is based on a novel computationally efficient maximumpseudo-partial-likelihood estimationmethod for the semiparametric proportional cause-specific hazards model.Using modern empirical process theorywe derive the asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators for the regression coefficients and the covariate-specific cumulative incidence functions, and provide methodology for constructing simultaneous confidence bands for the latter. Simulation studies show that our estimators perform well even in the presence of a large fraction of missing cause of failures, and that the regression coefficient estimator can be substantially more efficient compared to the previously proposed augmented inverse probability weighting estimator. The method is applied using data from an HIV cohort study and a bladder cancer clinical trial.
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    Semiparametric regression on cumulative incidence function with interval-censored competing risks data
    (Wiley, 2017-10-15) Bakoyannis, Giorgos; Yu, Menggang; Yiannoutsos, Constantin T.; Biostatistics, School of Public Health
    Many biomedical and clinical studies with time-to-event outcomes involve competing risks data. These data are frequently subject to interval censoring. This means that the failure time is not precisely observed but is only known to lie between two observation times such as clinical visits in a cohort study. Not taking into account the interval censoring may result in biased estimation of the cause-specific cumulative incidence function, an important quantity in the competing risks framework, used for evaluating interventions in populations, for studying the prognosis of various diseases, and for prediction and implementation science purposes. In this work, we consider the class of semiparametric generalized odds rate transformation models in the context of sieve maximum likelihood estimation based on B-splines. This large class of models includes both the proportional odds and the proportional subdistribution hazard models (i.e., the Fine-Gray model) as special cases. The estimator for the regression parameter is shown to be consistent, asymptotically normal and semiparametrically efficient. Simulation studies suggest that the method performs well even with small sample sizes. As an illustration, we use the proposed method to analyze data from HIV-infected individuals obtained from a large cohort study in sub-Saharan Africa. We also provide the R function ciregic that implements the proposed method and present an illustrative example.
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    Sieve estimation of a class of partially linear transformation models with interval-censored competing risks data
    (Academia Sinica, 2023) Lu, Xuewen; Wang, Yan; Bandyopadhyay, Dipankar; Bakoyannis, Giorgos; Biostatistics and Health Data Science, Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health
    In this paper, we consider a class of partially linear transformation models with interval-censored competing risks data. Under a semiparametric generalized odds rate specification for the cause-specific cumulative incidence function, we obtain optimal estimators of the large number of parametric and nonparametric model components via maximizing the likelihood function over a joint B-spline and Bernstein polynomial spanned sieve space. Our specification considers a relatively simpler finite-dimensional parameter space, approximating the infinite-dimensional parameter space as n → ∞, thereby allowing us to study the almost sure consistency, and rate of convergence for all parameters, and the asymptotic distributions and efficiency of the finite-dimensional components. We study the finite sample performance of our method through simulation studies under a variety of scenarios. Furthermore, we illustrate our methodology via application to a dataset on HIV-infected individuals from sub-Saharan Africa.