by Usha Govindarajulu | Oct 24, 2024 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
October 23, 2024 In terms of the Cox proportional hazards model, adding in a lasso feature for variable selection or other penalized method was typically done in the partial likelihood. Their method has sought to add the lasso penalty into the full likelihood. As the...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Sep 11, 2024 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
September 11, 2024 This article focused on joint modeling in the presence of informative censoring in a retrospective analysis in palliative care research. There has been a lack of statistical models to handle longitudinal quality of life (QOL) data and...
by Usha Govindarajulu | May 22, 2024 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
May 22, 2024 The authors have presented a review of current survival methods and contemporary methods that could help handle some of the issues that arise with current methods. The authors then went through description of current methods. They discussed censoring and...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Jun 9, 2023 | Biostatistics, Blog, Machine Learning, Usha Govindarajulu
June 7, 2023 The authors reviewed methods for complex survival data in terms of frailty models, like the recent advances and R packages. They explored areas of clustered outcomes, competing risks, illness-death model. They did admit their review did not cover two...
by Usha Govindarajulu | May 24, 2023 | Biostatistics, Blog, Professor, Usha Govindarajulu
May 24, 2023 The authors developed a semiparametric maximum likelihood estimation procedure via a kernel smoothed-aided expectation-maximization algorithm. The variances for this were estimated through weighted bootstrap. The authors focused on this for the...
