Abstract:
:When estimating a survival time distribution, the loss of information due to right censoring results in a loss of efficiency in the estimator. In many circumstances, however, repeated measurements on a longitudinal process which is associated with survival time are made throughout the observation time, and these measurements may be used to recover information lost to censoring. For example, patients in an AIDS clinical trial may be measured at regular intervals on CD4 count and viral load. We describe a model for the joint distribution of a survival time and a repeated measures process. The joint distribution is specified by linking the survival time to subject-specific random effects characterizing the repeated measures, and is similar in form to the pattern mixture model for multivariate data with nonignorable nonresponse. We also describe an estimator of survival derived from this model. We apply the methods to a long-term AIDS clinical trial, and study properties of the survival estimator. Monte Carlo simulation is used to estimate gains in efficiency when the survival time is related to the location and scale of the random effects distribution. Under relatively light censoring (20%), the methods yield a modest gain in efficiency for estimating three-year survival in the AIDS clinical trial. Our simulation study, which mimics characteristics of the clinical trial, indicates that much larger gains in efficiency can be realized under heavier censoring or with studies designed for long term follow up on survival.
journal_name
Stat Methods Med Resjournal_title
Statistical methods in medical researchauthors
Hogan JW,Laird NMdoi
10.1177/096228029800700104subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-03-01 00:00:00pages
28-48issue
1eissn
0962-2802issn
1477-0334journal_volume
7pub_type
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