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Activity Number: 163
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 1, 2016 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
Sponsor: Biometrics Section
Abstract #320572
Title: Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Interval-Censored Competing Risks Data
Author(s): Lu Mao* and Danyu Lin and Donglin Zeng
Companies: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Keywords: Cumulative incidence ; Interval censoring ; Nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation ; Self-consistency algorithm ; Time-varying covariates ; Transformation models
Abstract:

Interval-censored competing risks data arise when each study subject may experience an event or failure from one of several causes and the failure time is not observed exactly but rather known to lie in an interval between two successive examinations. We formulate the effects of possibly time-varying covariates on the cumulative incidence or sub-distribution function(i.e., the marginal probability of failure from a particular cause) of competing risks through a broad class of semiparametric regression models that captures both proportional and nonproportional hazards structures for the sub-distribution. We accommodate missing information on the cause of failure. We consider nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation and devise a fast and stable EM-type algorithm for its computation. We then establish the consistency, asymptotic normality, and semiparametric efficiency of the resulting estimators by appealing to modern empirical process theory. In addition, we show through extensive simulation studies that the proposed methods perform well in realistic situations. Finally, we provide an application to a study on HIV-1 infection with different viral subtypes.


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