A Bayesian MCMC approach to survival analysis with doubly-censored data

Binbing Yu

Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2010, vol. 54, issue 8, 1921-1929

Abstract: Doubly-censored data refers to time to event data for which both the originating and failure times are censored. In studies involving AIDS incubation time or survival after dementia onset, for example, data are frequently doubly-censored because the date of the originating event is interval-censored and the date of the failure event usually is right-censored. The primary interest is in the distribution of elapsed times between the originating and failure events and its relationship to exposures and risk factors. The estimating equation approach [Sun et al. (1999). Regression analysis of doubly censored failure time data with applications to AIDS studies. Biometrics 55, 909-914] and its extensions assume the same distribution of originating event times for all subjects. This paper demonstrates the importance of utilizing additional covariates to impute originating event times, i.e., more accurate estimation of originating event times may lead to less biased parameter estimates for elapsed time. The Bayesian MCMC method is shown to be a suitable approach for analyzing doubly-censored data and allows a rich class of survival models. The performance of the proposed estimation method is compared to that of other conventional methods through simulations. Two examples, an AIDS cohort study and a population-based dementia study, are used for illustration. Sample code is shown in [Appendix A WinBUGS code for the dementia survival analysis] and [Appendix B Data and WinBUGS code for the AIDS analysis].

Keywords: AIDS; Dementia; Doubly; censored; data; Incubation; period; MCMC; Midpoint; imputation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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