Statistical issues in survival analysis (Part XVVIII)
February 26, 2024 TABLE 1. Summary of the available methods for survival regression with competing risks (CR). Model Type Proportional hazards (PH) High dimensions (�) Missing data Approaches based on a cause-specific hazard specification Cox proportional CS hazard...
Statistical issues in general (Part IV)
In an article in Biometrical Journal, Heinze et al discussed phases of methodological research in biostatistics. The authors of this publication are all members of an international STRATOS (STRengthening Analytical Thinking for Observational Studies) Intiative, whose...
Statistical issues in survival analysis (Part XVVII)
January 31, 2024 In an article that appeared in Biometrical Journal, Hu described a new random-intercept accelerated failure time model with Bayesian additive regression trees (riAFT-BART), which can be used to draw causal inferences on population treatment effectts...
Statistical issues in survival analysis (Part XVVI)
January 17, 2023 In an article that appeared in Biometrical Journal, Hoogland et al (2023) had aimed to combine the benefits of flexible parametric survival modeling and regularization in order to improve risk prediction modeling in the context of time-to-event data....
Statistical issues in general (Part III)
January 3, 2023 In an article that appeared in Biometrical Journal, Le Bourdonnec et al (2023) discussed a method to address unmeasured confounding in cohort studies by an instrumental varible (IV) method for a time fixed expousre on an outcome trajectory, repeatedly...
Statistical issues in survival analysis (Part XVV)
December 20, 2023 In article that appeared in Statistics in Medicine, Denz et al explored different methods for modeling of adjusted survival curves especially in observational studies, which tend to have issues with confounding. The authors also brought in...
Statistical issues in survival analysis (Part XVIV)
December 6, 2023 In article that appeared in Biostatistics, Wu et al describe a joint modeling approach of longitduinal data like quality of life and survival data on a retrospective time scale and handling of informative censoring issues in a two arm clinical trial...
Statistical issues in survival analysis (Part XVIII) November 22, 2023 In this article that appeared in Journal of Probability and Statistics, the authors described a new test as an alternative to the log-rank test to compare late differences between survival curves. ...
Statistical issues in survival analysis (Part XIV)
November 9, 2023 In this article that appeared in a special issue in the Biometrical Journal, Morelle et al described a joint modeling approach to account for the longitudinal followup of patients at subsequent hospitalization or competing risk. While most prognostic...
Statistical issues in survival analysis (Part XVI)
October 15, 2023 The authors discussed how to handle model joint survival and longitudinal modeling in the presence of informative censoring caused by informative dropouts by participants in a study. The authors framed this in terms of palliative care studies where...