Modified Cox Models: A Simulation Study on Different Survival Distributions, Censoring Rates, and Sample Sizes

Iketle Aretha Maharela, Lizelle Fletcher and Ding-Geng Chen ()
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Iketle Aretha Maharela: Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa
Lizelle Fletcher: Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa
Ding-Geng Chen: Department of Statistics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria 0028, South Africa

Mathematics, 2024, vol. 12, issue 18, 1-10

Abstract: The classical Cox model is the most popular procedure for studying right-censored data in survival analysis. However, it is based on the fundamental assumption of proportional hazards (PH). Modified Cox models, stratified and extended, have been widely employed as solutions when the PH assumption is violated. Nevertheless, prior comparisons of the modified Cox models did not employ comprehensive Monte-Carlo simulations to carry out a comparative analysis between the two models. In this paper, we conducted extensive Monte-Carlo simulation to compare the performance of the stratified and extended Cox models under varying censoring rates, sample sizes, and survival distributions. Our results suggest that the models’ performance at varying censoring rates and sample sizes is robust to the distribution of survival times. Thus, their performance under Weibull survival times was comparable to that of exponential survival times. Furthermore, we found that the extended Cox model outperformed other models under every combination of censoring, sample size and survival distribution.

Keywords: stratified; extended Cox; time-varying covariate; Weibull and exponential survival distribution; Monte-Carlo simulations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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