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Activity Number: 453
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 1, 2007 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: IMS
Abstract - #307715
Title: Joint Modeling of Longitudinal and Survival Data
Author(s): Jane-Ling Wang*+
Companies: University of California, Davis
Address: 1 Shields Avenue, Department of Statistics, Davis, CA, 95616,
Keywords: semiparametric models ; EM-algorithm ; Monte Carlo integrations ; functional data ; informative dropout ; measurement errors
Abstract:

It has become increasingly common to observe the survival time of a subject along with baseline and longitudinal covariates. Due to several complications, traditional approaches to marginally model the survival or longitudinal data encounter difficulties. Jointly modeling these two types of data emerges as an effective way to overcome these difficulties. We will discuss the challenges in this area and provide several solutions. One of the difficulties is with the likelihood approaches when the survival component is modeled semiparametrically as in Cox or accelerated failure time models. Several alternatives will be illustrated, including nonparametric MLEs, the method of sieves, and pseudo-likelihood approaches. Another difficulty has to do with the parametric modeling of the longitudinal component. Nonparametric alternatives will be considered to deal with this complication.


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