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ArticleBiometrics2022

Cox regression model under dependent truncation.

Lior Rennert, Sharon X Xie

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Article in Biometrics, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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Lior RennertDepartment of Public Health Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, SC, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5275-7273
Sharon X XieDepartment of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7886-4103

Funding

UPenn ADCC Biomarker CoreP30AG010124 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI XIE, SHARON XIANGWEN · 1991 to 2020
$35.1M
Understanding Environmental Contributions to Heterogeneity in bvFTD.P01AG066597 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI David John Irwin, Corey T McMillan · 2020 to 2026
$18.8M
Project IV "Tackling Heterogeneity of Cognitive Trajectory in LBD"U19AG062418 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI TROJANOWSKI, JOHN Q. · 2019 to 2023
$18.1M
Mental Health Biostatistics Training ProgramT32MH065218 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI BILKER, WARREN B. · 2003 to 2018
$1.3M
Efficient statistical methods for assessing dementia risk in Parkinson's diseaseR01NS102324 · NINDS · UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA · PI WEINTRAUB, DANIEL, XIE, SHARON XIANGWEN · 2017 to 2020
$1.3M
NIA NIH HHS P01 AG066597NIA NIH HHS P30 AG010124NIA NIH HHS U19 AG062418NIMH NIH HHS T32 MH065218NINDS NIH HHS R01 NS102324
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Abstract

Truncation is a statistical phenomenon that occurs in many time-to-event studies. For example, autopsy-confirmed studies of neurodegenerative diseases are subject to an inherent left and right truncation, also known as double truncation. When the goal is to study the effect of risk factors on survival, the standard Cox regression model cannot be used when the survival time is subject to truncation. Existing methods that adjust for both left and right truncation in the Cox regression model require independence between the survival times and truncation times, which may not be a reasonable assumption in practice. We propose an expectation-maximization algorithm to relax the independence assumption in the Cox regression model under left, right, or double truncation to an assumption of conditional independence on the observed covariates. The resulting regression coefficient estimators are consistent and asymptotically normal. We demonstrate through extensive simulations that the proposed estimator has little bias and has a similar or lower mean-squared error compared to existing estimators. We implement our approach to assess the effect of occupation on survival in subjects with autopsy-confirmed Alzheimer's disease.

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Models, StatisticalBiasData Interpretation, StatisticalHumansProportional Hazards ModelsSurvival Analysiscox regressiondependencedouble truncationleft truncationright truncationsurvival

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PMID33687064
PMCPMC8426413

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