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Article: Estimation of age effect with change-points on survival of cancer patients
Title | Estimation of age effect with change-points on survival of cancer patients |
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Keywords | asymptotically efficient breast cancer change-points disease-free survival |
Issue Date | 2018 |
Publisher | Wiley. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0277-6715/ |
Citation | Statistics In Medicine, 2018, v. 37, p. 1732-1743 How to Cite? |
Abstract | There is a global trend that the average onset age of many human complex diseases is decreasing, and the age of cancer patients becomes more spread out. The age effect on survival is nonlinear in practice and may have one or more important change‐points at which the trend of the effect can be very different before and after these threshold ages. Identification of these change‐points allows clinical researchers to understand the biologic basis for the complex relation between age and prognosis for optimal prognostic decision. This paper considers estimation of the potentially nonlinear age effect for general partly linear survival models to ensure a valid statistical inference on the treatment effect. A simple and efficient sieve maximum likelihood estimation method that can be implemented easily using standard statistical software is proposed. A data‐driven adaptive algorithm to determine the optimal location and the number of knots for the identification of the change‐points is suggested. Simulation studies are performed to study the performance of the proposed method. For illustration purpose, the method is applied to a breast cancer data set from the public domain to investigate the effect of onset age on the disease‐free survival of the patients. The results revealed that the risk is highest among young patients and young postmenopausal patients, probably because of a change in hormonal environment during a certain phase of menopause. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/259501 |
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dc.contributor.author | Lam, KF | - |
dc.contributor.author | XU, J | - |
dc.contributor.author | XUE, H | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-03T04:08:51Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2018-09-03T04:08:51Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2018 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Statistics In Medicine, 2018, v. 37, p. 1732-1743 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/259501 | - |
dc.description.abstract | There is a global trend that the average onset age of many human complex diseases is decreasing, and the age of cancer patients becomes more spread out. The age effect on survival is nonlinear in practice and may have one or more important change‐points at which the trend of the effect can be very different before and after these threshold ages. Identification of these change‐points allows clinical researchers to understand the biologic basis for the complex relation between age and prognosis for optimal prognostic decision. This paper considers estimation of the potentially nonlinear age effect for general partly linear survival models to ensure a valid statistical inference on the treatment effect. A simple and efficient sieve maximum likelihood estimation method that can be implemented easily using standard statistical software is proposed. A data‐driven adaptive algorithm to determine the optimal location and the number of knots for the identification of the change‐points is suggested. Simulation studies are performed to study the performance of the proposed method. For illustration purpose, the method is applied to a breast cancer data set from the public domain to investigate the effect of onset age on the disease‐free survival of the patients. The results revealed that the risk is highest among young patients and young postmenopausal patients, probably because of a change in hormonal environment during a certain phase of menopause. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Wiley. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0277-6715/ | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Statistics In Medicine | - |
dc.rights | Preprint This is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: [FULL CITE], which has been published in final form at [Link to final article]. Authors are not required to remove preprints posted prior to acceptance of the submitted version. Postprint This is the accepted version of the following article: [full citation], which has been published in final form at [Link to final article]. | - |
dc.subject | asymptotically efficient | - |
dc.subject | breast cancer | - |
dc.subject | change-points | - |
dc.subject | disease-free survival | - |
dc.title | Estimation of age effect with change-points on survival of cancer patients | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Lam, KF: hrntlkf@hkucc.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Lam, KF=rp00718 | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1002/sim.7618 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85045271609 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 289162 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 37 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1732 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 1743 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000429730500010 | - |