Estimating transition intensity rate on interval-censored data using semi-parametric with EM algorithm approach

Chen Qian, Deo Kumar Srivastava, Jianmin Pan, Melissa M. Hudson and Shesh N. Rai

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2024, vol. 53, issue 17, 6038-6054

Abstract: Phase IV clinical trials are designed to monitor long-term side effects of medical treatment. For instance, childhood cancer survivors treated with chest radiation and/or anthracycline are often at risk of developing cardiotoxicity during their adulthood.Often the primary focus of a study could be on estimating the cumulative incidence of a particular outcome of interest such as cardiotoxicity. However, it is challenging to evaluate patients continuously and usually, this information is collected through cross-sectional surveys by following patients longitudinally. This leads to interval-censored data since the exact time of the onset of the toxicity is unknown.Rai et al. computed the transition intensity rate using a parametric model and estimated parameters using maximum likelihood approach in an illness-death model. However, such approach may not be suitable if the underlying parametric assumptions do not hold. This manuscript proposes a semi-parametric model, with a logit relationship for the treatment intensities in two groups, to estimate the transition intensity rates within the context of an illness-death model. The estimation of the parameters is done using an EM algorithm with profile likelihood. Results from the simulation studies suggest that the proposed approach is easy to implement and yields comparable results to the parametric model.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2023.2239397

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