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ArticleStatistics in medicine2013

Bayesian semiparametric mixture Tobit models with left censoring, skewness, and covariate measurement errors.

Getachew A Dagne, Yangxin Huang

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Article in Statistics in medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Getachew A DagneDepartment of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, College of Public Health, MDC 56, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL 33612, U.S.A.
Yangxin Huang

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STATISTICAL METHODS FOR MENTAL HEALTH PREVENTIVE TRIALSR01MH040859 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI BROWN, C. HENDRICKS · 1986 to 2014
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NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH040859NIMH NIH HHS R01MH040859-23
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Abstract

Common problems to many longitudinal HIV/AIDS, cancer, vaccine, and environmental exposure studies are the presence of a lower limit of quantification of an outcome with skewness and time-varying covariates with measurement errors. There has been relatively little work published simultaneously dealing with these features of longitudinal data. In particular, left-censored data falling below a limit of detection may sometimes have a proportion larger than expected under a usually assumed log-normal distribution. In such cases, alternative models, which can account for a high proportion of censored data, should be considered. In this article, we present an extension of the Tobit model that incorporates a mixture of true undetectable observations and those values from a skew-normal distribution for an outcome with possible left censoring and skewness, and covariates with substantial measurement error. To quantify the covariate process, we offer a flexible nonparametric mixed-effects model within the Tobit framework. A Bayesian modeling approach is used to assess the simultaneous impact of left censoring, skewness, and measurement error in covariates on inference. The proposed methods are illustrated using real data from an AIDS clinical study. .

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Bayes TheoremLimit of DetectionModels, StatisticalAnti-HIV AgentsCD4 Lymphocyte CountComputer SimulationHIV-1HIV InfectionsHumansLongitudinal StudiesViral LoadAnti-HIV Agentsmeasurement errormixed-effects modelsmixture Tobit modelsskew distributions

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PMID23553914
PMCPMC3773307

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