JSM Preliminary Online Program
This is the preliminary program for the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings in Washington, DC.

The views expressed here are those of the individual authors
and not necessarily those of the ASA or its board, officers, or staff.

Back to main JSM 2009 Program page

Activity Number: 426
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 5, 2009 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Biometrics Section
Abstract - #303229
Title: Accelerated Failure Time Marginal Means Models for Recurrent Events with a Terminal Event
Author(s): Xiaoyan Wang*+ and Jianwen Cai
Companies: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Address: 347 Cobblestone Court, Chapel Hill, NC, 27514,
Keywords: Accelerated life model ; Recurrent events ; Survival Data ; Empirical process ; Censoring ; Multiple events
Abstract:

Recurrent events with a terminal event such as death arise in many application areas. In the presence of terminal events, we consider a marginal mean model, assuming the accelerated failure time (AFT) model for counting process (Lin, Wei and Ying, 1998) holds for the recurrent event means function marginally across survival status. Estimators for the regression parameters and the baseline mean function are proposed, which are shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal. We investigate the finite-sample properties of the proposed estimators through simulation studies and illustrate the proposed method through an application to recurrent hospitalization data taken from the Studies of Left Ventricular Dysfunction (SOLVD).

  • The address information is for the authors that have a + after their name.
  • Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.

Back to the full JSM 2009 program


JSM 2009 For information, contact jsm@amstat.org or phone (888) 231-3473. If you have questions about the Continuing Education program, please contact the Education Department.
Revised September, 2008