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ArticleStatistics in medicine2023

On the estimation of interval censored destructive negative binomial cure model.

Jodi Treszoks, Suvra Pal

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Article in Statistics in medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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  2. Modeling Cure from Cancer Accounting for Inevitable Mortality.Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C, Applied statistics · 2026
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  5. Machine Learning Approach for Analyzing Mixed Case Interval Censored Data with a Cured Subgroup.Advances in statistical analysis : AStA : a journal of the German Statistical Society · 2025
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Jodi TreszoksDepartment of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA.
Suvra PalDepartment of Mathematics, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-9864-9489

Funding

Using Machine Learning to Improve the Predictive Accuracy of Disease CureR15GM150091 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARLINGTON · PI PAL, SUVRA · 2023 to 2023
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NIGMS NIH HHS R15 GM150091NIGMS NIH HHS R15GM150091
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this article, a competitive risk survival model is considered in which the initial number of risks, assumed to follow a negative binomial distribution, is subject to a destructive mechanism. Assuming the population of interest to have a cure component, the form of the data as interval-censored, and considering both the number of initial risks and risks remaining active after destruction to be missing data, we develop two distinct estimation algorithms for this model. Making use of the conditional distributions of the missing data, we develop an expectation maximization (EM) algorithm, in which the conditional expected complete log-likelihood function is decomposed into simpler functions which are then maximized independently. A variation of the EM algorithm, called the stochastic EM (SEM) algorithm, is also developed with the goal of avoiding the calculation of complicated expectations and improving performance at parameter recovery. A Monte Carlo simulation study is carried out to evaluate the performance of both estimation methods through calculated bias, root mean square error, and coverage probability of the asymptotic confidence interval. We demonstrate the proposed SEM algorithm as the preferred estimation method through simulation and further illustrate the advantage of the SEM algorithm, as well as the use of a destructive model, with data from a children's mortality study.

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AlgorithmsModels, StatisticalChildComputer SimulationHumansLikelihood FunctionsMonte Carlo Methodchildren's mortalitycompeting causesinterval censoringSEM algorithm

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