Title | Bayesian path specific frailty models for multi-state survival data with applications. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2015 |
Authors | DE Castro, Mário, Ming-Hui Chen, and Yuanye Zhang |
Journal | Biometrics |
Volume | 71 |
Issue | 3 |
Pagination | 760-71 |
Date Published | 2015 Sep |
ISSN | 1541-0420 |
Keywords | Bayes Theorem, Bone Marrow Transplantation, Data Interpretation, Statistical, Humans, Leukemia, Models, Statistical, Outcome Assessment, Health Care, Prevalence, Reproducibility of Results, Risk Assessment, Sensitivity and Specificity, Survival Analysis, Treatment Outcome |
Abstract | Multi-state models can be viewed as generalizations of both the standard and competing risks models for survival data. Models for multi-state data have been the theme of many recent published works. Motivated by bone marrow transplant data, we propose a Bayesian model using the gap times between two successive events in a path of events experienced by a subject. Path specific frailties are introduced to capture the dependence structure of the gap times in the paths with two or more states. Under improper prior distributions for the parameters, we establish propriety of the posterior distribution. An efficient Gibbs sampling algorithm is developed for drawing samples from the posterior distribution. An extensive simulation study is carried out to examine the empirical performance of the proposed approach. A bone marrow transplant data set is analyzed in detail to further demonstrate the proposed methodology. |
DOI | 10.1111/biom.12298 |
Alternate Journal | Biometrics |
Original Publication | Bayesian path specific frailty models for multi-state survival data with applications. |
PubMed ID | 25762198 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC4567543 |
Grant List | CA 74015 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States R01 GM070335 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States GM 70335 / GM / NIGMS NIH HHS / United States P01 CA142538 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States R01 CA074015 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States |
Bayesian path specific frailty models for multi-state survival data with applications.
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