Multiple imputation for cure rate quantile regression with censored data
Multiple imputation for cure rate quantile regression with censored data
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DOI：
10.1111/biom.12574
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发表时间：
2017-03
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1.9
通讯作者：
Yuanshan Wu;G. Yin
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作者：
Yuanshan Wu;G. Yin
The main challenge in the context of cure rate analysis is that one never knows whether censored subjects are cured or uncured, or whether they are susceptible or insusceptible to the event of interest. Considering the susceptible indicator as missing data, we propose a multiple imputation approach to cure rate quantile regression for censored data with a survival fraction. We develop an iterative algorithm to estimate the conditionally uncured probability for each subject. By utilizing this estimated probability and Bernoulli sample imputation, we can classify each subject as cured or uncured, and then employ the locally weighted method to estimate the quantile regression coefficients with only the uncured subjects. Repeating the imputation procedure multiple times and taking an average over the resultant estimators, we obtain consistent estimators for the quantile regression coefficients. Our approach relaxes the usual global linearity assumption, so that we can apply quantile regression to any particular quantile of interest. We establish asymptotic properties for the proposed estimators, including both consistency and asymptotic normality. We conduct simulation studies to assess the finite‐sample performance of the proposed multiple imputation method and apply it to a lung cancer study as an illustration.
