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Optimal designs for full and partial likelihood information - with application to survival models

Optimal designs for full and partial likelihood information - with application to survival models
Optimal designs for full and partial likelihood information - with application to survival models
Time-to-event data are often modelled through Cox's proportional hazards model for which inference is based on the partial likelihood function. We derive a general expression for the asymptotic covariance matrix of Cox's partial likelihood estimator for the covariate coefficients. Our approach is illustrated through an application to the special case of only one covariate, for which we construct minimum variance designs for different censoring mechanisms and both binary and interval design spaces. We compare these designs with the corresponding ones found using the full likelihood approach and demonstrate that the latter designs are highly efficient also for partial likelihood estimation.
right-censoring, cox's proportional hazards model, optimal design, full likelihood, partial likelihood
0378-3758
27–37
Konstantinou, Maria
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Biedermann, S.
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Kimber, Alan C.
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Konstantinou, Maria
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Biedermann, S.
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Kimber, Alan C.
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Konstantinou, Maria, Biedermann, S. and Kimber, Alan C. (2015) Optimal designs for full and partial likelihood information - with application to survival models. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 165, 27–37. (doi:10.1016/j.jspi.2015.03.007).

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Time-to-event data are often modelled through Cox's proportional hazards model for which inference is based on the partial likelihood function. We derive a general expression for the asymptotic covariance matrix of Cox's partial likelihood estimator for the covariate coefficients. Our approach is illustrated through an application to the special case of only one covariate, for which we construct minimum variance designs for different censoring mechanisms and both binary and interval design spaces. We compare these designs with the corresponding ones found using the full likelihood approach and demonstrate that the latter designs are highly efficient also for partial likelihood estimation.

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Accepted/In Press date: 14 March 2015
e-pub ahead of print date: 2 April 2015
Published date: 1 October 2015
Additional Information: Published in the October 2015 volume
Keywords: right-censoring, cox's proportional hazards model, optimal design, full likelihood, partial likelihood
Organisations: Statistical Sciences Research Institute

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Local EPrints ID: 366672
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/366672
ISSN: 0378-3758
PURE UUID: 834e67f1-cd3f-4d51-a951-31cae7f314e6
ORCID for S. Biedermann: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8900-8268

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Date deposited: 04 Jul 2014 15:47
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:26

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Author: Maria Konstantinou
Author: S. Biedermann ORCID iD
Author: Alan C. Kimber

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