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Abstract Details
Activity Number:
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343
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Tuesday, August 3, 2010 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Biometrics Section
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Abstract - #308610 |
Title:
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Concordance Measures: Estimation Methods and Potential Bias Due to Censoring
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Author(s):
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Norberto Pantoja*+ and Rebecca Betensky
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Companies:
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Harvard School of Public Health/FDA and Harvard School of Public Health
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Address:
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Keywords:
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C-index ;
ROC curve ;
Alzheimer's disease
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Abstract:
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A concordance probability is a measure of predictive accuracy of a marker for an event, which occurs at random times and may be right censored. We review different estimation procedures for this measure presented in the literature. An important issue is how censored times are handled. Some of these procedures make model assumptions and perform well under such assumptions. Other methods are nonparametric but do not use all the available information, therefore bias is present, particularly under high levels of censoring. Uno et al (2009) proposes a nonparametric method that includes inverse probability weights in their estimator. Such estimator assumes that the censoring is independent of the marker. We extend their result and propose an estimator that performs well under the assumption of censoring dependent of the marker. Applications on Alzheimer's disease are presented.
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