The analysis of tumorigenicity data using a frailty effect
Journal of the Korean Statistical Society(2010)
摘要
In animal tumorigenicity data, the time of occurrence of the tumor is not observed because the existence of the tumor is looked for only at either the time of death or the time of sacrifice of the animal. Such an incomplete data structure makes it difficult to investigate the impact of treatment on the occurrence of tumors. A three-state model (no tumor-tumor-death) is used to model events that occurred sequentially and to connect them. In this paper, we also employed a frailty effect to model the dependency of death on tumor occurrence. For the inference of parameters, an EM algorithm is considered. The method is applied to a real bladder tumor data set and a simulation study is performed to show the behavior of the proposed estimators.
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Current status data,Frailty effect,EM algorithm,Three-state model,Tumorigenicity
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