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ArticleThe international journal of biostatistics2012

Bayesian inference for a nonlinear mixed-effects Tobit model with multivariate skew-t distributions: application to AIDS studies.

Getachew Dagne, Yangxin Huang

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Article in The international journal of biostatistics, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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  2. Analysis of Censored Longitudinal Data with Skewness and a Terminal Event.Communications in statistics: Simulation and computation · 2017
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2 authors.

Getachew DagneUniversity of South Florida, FL, USA.
Yangxin Huang

Funding

STATISTICAL METHODS FOR MENTAL HEALTH PREVENTIVE TRIALSR01MH040859 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI BROWN, C. HENDRICKS · 1986 to 2014
$7.5M
Statistical Methods for Long-Term HIV Dynamic Modeling and DesignR03AI080338 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI HUANG, YANGXIN · 2009 to 2010
$144k
NIAID NIH HHS AI080338NIAID NIH HHS R03 AI080338NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH040859NIMH NIH HHS R01MH040859-22
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Censored data are characteristics of many bioassays in HIV/AIDS studies where assays may not be sensitive enough to determine gradations in viral load determination among those below a detectable threshold. Not accounting for such left-censoring appropriately can lead to biased parameter estimates in most data analysis. To properly adjust for left-censoring, this paper presents an extension of the Tobit model for fitting nonlinear dynamic mixed-effects models with skew distributions. Such extensions allow one to specify the conditional distributions for viral load response to account for left-censoring, skewness and heaviness in the tails of the distributions of the response variable. A Bayesian modeling approach via Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm is used to estimate model parameters. The proposed methods are illustrated using real data from an HIV/AIDS study.

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Bayes TheoremModels, StatisticalAcquired Immunodeficiency SyndromeAlgorithmsAnti-Retroviral AgentsCD4 Lymphocyte CountClinical Trials as TopicComputer SimulationData Interpretation, StatisticalHIV InfectionsHumansMarkov ChainsViral LoadAnti-Retroviral Agents

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PMID22992288
PMCPMC4968403

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