Monotone Constrained Tensor-product B-spline with application to screening studies

Yue Wang and Jeremy Taylor
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Yue Wang: Vaccine Biometric Research, Merk Co. & Inc.
Jeremy Taylor: University of Michigan

No 1022, The University of Michigan Department of Biostatistics Working Paper Series from Berkeley Electronic Press

Abstract: When different markers are responsive to different aspects of a disease, combination of multiple markers could provide a better screening test for early detection. It is also resonable to assume that the risk of disease changes smoothly as the biomarker values change and the change in risk is monotone with respect to each biomarker. In this paper, we propose a boundary constrained tensor-product B-spline method to estimate the risk of disease by maximizing a penalized likelihood. To choose the optimal amount of smoothing, two scores are proposed which are extensions of the GCV score (O'Sullivan et al. (1986)) and the GACV score (Ziang and Wahba (1996)) to incorporate linear constraints. Simulation studies are carried out to investigate the performance of the proposed estimator and the selection scores. In addidtion, sensitivities and specificities based ona pproximate leave-one-out estimates are proposed to generate more realisitc ROC curves. Data from a pancreatic cancer study is used for illustration.

Date: 2004-07-11
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