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Activity Number: 10
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Sunday, August 6, 2006 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Section on Bayesian Statistical Science
Abstract - #305143
Title: A Flexible B-Spline Model for Multiple Longitudinal Biomarkers and Survival
Author(s): Elizabeth Brown*+
Companies: University of Washington
Address: , , ,
Keywords: joint longitudinal and survival models ; b-splines ; MCMC ; HIV/AIDS
Abstract:

Often, when jointly modeling longitudinal and survival data, we are interested in a multivariate longitudinal measure that may not fit well with linear models. To overcome this problem, we propose a joint longitudinal and survival model that has a nonparametric model for the longitudinal markers. We use cubic B-splines to specify the longitudinal model and a proportional hazards model to link the longitudinal measures to the hazard. To fit the model, we use a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm. We select the number of knots for the cubic B-spline model using the Conditional Predictive Ordinate (CPO) and the Deviance Information Criterion (DIC). We apply this method to examine the link between viral load, CD4 count, and time to event in data from an AIDS clinical trial.

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