1. Proportional hazards model with a change point for clustered event data
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Yu Deng, Jianwen Cai, Donglin Zeng, and Jinying Zhao
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Statistics and Probability ,General Immunology and Microbiology ,Proportional hazards model ,Applied Mathematics ,05 social sciences ,Score ,Inference ,Estimator ,General Medicine ,Risk factor (finance) ,01 natural sciences ,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology ,Regression ,010104 statistics & probability ,Consistency (statistics) ,0502 economics and business ,Statistics ,Linear regression ,Econometrics ,sense organs ,0101 mathematics ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,General Agricultural and Biological Sciences ,050205 econometrics ,Mathematics - Abstract
In many epidemiology studies, family data with survival endpoints are collected to investigate the association between risk factors and disease incidence. Sometimes the risk of the disease may change when a certain risk factor exceeds a certain threshold. Finding this threshold value could be important for disease risk prediction and diseases prevention. In this work, we propose a change-point proportional hazards model for clustered event data. The model incorporates the unknown threshold of a continuous variable as a change point in the regression. The marginal pseudo-partial likelihood functions are maximized for estimating the regression coefficients and the unknown change point. We develop a supremum test based on robust score statistics to test the existence of the change point. The inference for the change point is based on the m out of n bootstrap. We establish the consistency and asymptotic distributions of the proposed estimators. The finite-sample performance of the proposed method is demonstrated via extensive simulation studies. Finally, the Strong Heart Family Study dataset is analyzed to illustrate the methods.
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- 2017
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