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Activity Number: 627
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Thursday, August 2, 2012 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Nonparametric Statistics
Abstract - #305145
Title: Weighted Kernel Regressions in Longitudinal Studies with Dropout
Author(s): Lu Wang*+ and Xihong Lin and Andrea Rotnitzky
Companies: University of Michigan and Harvard University and Di Tella University/Harvard School of Public Health
Address: , Ann Arbor, ,
Keywords: Asymptotics ; Dropout at random ; Efficiency ; Inverse probability weighting ; Kernel smoothing ; Seemingly unrelated
Abstract:

We consider nonparametric regression for longitudinal data when some subjects drop out of the study at random. Drop out may depend on the history of both outcome and covariates, but is independent of future outcome and covariates. We propose inverse probability weighted (IPW) kernel generalized estimating equations (GEEs) and IPW seemingly unrelated (SUR) kernel estimating equations using either complete cases or available cases. None of these approaches require specification of a parametric model for the error distribution. We show that these IPW kernel estimators are consistent when the probability of dropout is known or estimated correctly. The most efficient IPW kernel GEE estimator is obtained by ignoring the within-subject correlation, while in contrast the most efficient IPW SUR kernel estimator is obtained by accounting for within-subject correlation and is more efficient than the most efficient IPW kernel GEE counterpart. The IPW kernel estimators obtained using all available cases are more efficient than those using complete cases when appropriate covariance matrices are used. We perform simulations to evaluate the finite sample performance of the proposed methods.


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