by Usha Govindarajulu | Nov 19, 2025 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
November 19, 2025 In longitudinal data with irregularly timed visits, semi-parametric joint models have been proposed to account for the dependence between times and the Sun model (Sun et al, 2011) has been the most suitable for count data. The authors have extended...
by Usha Govindarajulu | Jul 2, 2025 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
July 2, 2025 The importance of evaluating a longitudinal biomarker in survival analysis for overall or disease-free survival can be important. The authors have defined a new joint model for a longitudinal biomarker and a time-to-event endpoint, taking into account...
by Usha Govindarajulu | May 7, 2025 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
May 7, 2025 The authors have presented a tutorial on joint latent class models (JLCMs), which are a statistical approach to allowing to simultaneously account for two outcomes related to disease progression, a longitudinal measure and a time-to-event measure. A linear...
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 | Dec 6, 2023 | Biostatistics, Blog, Usha Govindarajulu
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...
