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Keywords: exposure-response, survival analysis, Cox proportional hazard model
The exposure-repose relationship of clinical event and on treatment biomarker was evaluated as a spline-smoothed function of time-varying biomarker using a Cox proportional hazard model with spline-smoothed biomarker as spline-smoothed covariate. The hazards were estimated from the Cox model by spline-smoothed spline-smoothed biomarker. Hazard ratio (95% CI) as referenced to baseline distribution of the biomarker were estimated.