Title | JOINT STRUCTURE SELECTION AND ESTIMATION IN THE TIME-VARYING COEFFICIENT COX MODEL. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2016 |
Authors | Xiao, Wei, Wenbin Lu, and Hao Helen Zhang |
Journal | Stat Sin |
Volume | 26 |
Issue | 2 |
Pagination | 547-567 |
Date Published | 2016 Apr |
ISSN | 1017-0405 |
Abstract | Time-varying coefficient Cox model has been widely studied and popularly used in survival data analysis due to its flexibility for modeling covariate effects. It is of great practical interest to accurately identify the structure of covariate effects in a time-varying coefficient Cox model, i.e. covariates with null effect, constant effect and truly time-varying effect, and estimate the corresponding regression coefficients. Combining the ideas of local polynomial smoothing and group nonnegative garrote, we develop a new penalization approach to achieve such goals. Our method is able to identify the underlying true model structure with probability tending to one and simultaneously estimate the time-varying coefficients consistently. The asymptotic normalities of the resulting estimators are also established. We demonstrate the performance of our method using simulations and an application to the primary biliary cirrhosis data. |
DOI | 10.5705/ss.2013.076 |
Alternate Journal | Stat Sin |
Original Publication | Joint structure selection and estimation in the time-varying coefficient Cox model. |
PubMed ID | 27540275 |
PubMed Central ID | PMC4987133 |
Grant List | P01 CA142538 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States R01 CA140632 / CA / NCI NIH HHS / United States |
JOINT STRUCTURE SELECTION AND ESTIMATION IN THE TIME-VARYING COEFFICIENT COX MODEL.
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