Analysis of the Proportional Hazards Model With Sparse Longitudinal Covariates

Hongyuan Cao, Mathew M. Churpek, Donglin Zeng and Jason P. Fine

Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2015, vol. 110, issue 511, 1187-1196

Abstract: Regression analysis of censored failure observations via the proportional hazards model permits time-varying covariates that are observed at death times. In practice, such longitudinal covariates are typically sparse and only measured at infrequent and irregularly spaced follow-up times. Full likelihood analyses of joint models for longitudinal and survival data impose stringent modeling assumptions that are difficult to verify in practice and that are complicated both inferentially and computationally. In this article, a simple kernel weighted score function is proposed with minimal assumptions. Two scenarios are considered: half kernel estimation in which observation ceases at the time of the event and full kernel estimation for data where observation may continue after the event, as with recurrent events data. It is established that these estimators are consistent and asymptotically normal. However, they converge at rates that are slower than the parametric rates that may be achieved with fully observed covariates, with the full kernel method achieving an optimal convergence rate that is superior to that of the half kernel method. Simulation results demonstrate that the large sample approximations are adequate for practical use and may yield improved performance relative to last value carried forward approach and joint modeling method. The analysis of the data from a cardiac arrest study demonstrates the utility of the proposed methods. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.957289

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