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Estimation of competing risks with general missing pattern in failure types.

Anup Dewanji1, Debasis Sengupta

  • 1Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, 203, B. T. Road, Calcutta 700 035, India. dewanjia@isical.ac.in

Biometrics
|February 19, 2004
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This study addresses missing failure types in competing risks data. New statistical methods, including expectation maximization and a Nelson-Aalen type estimator, effectively handle missing data, showing small bias even with high missingness.

Area of Science:

  • Biostatistics
  • Survival Analysis
  • Statistical Modeling

Background:

  • Missing failure types are common in competing risks data.
  • Accurate analysis requires robust methods to handle this missingness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate statistical methods for analyzing competing risks data with missing failure types.
  • To address general missing patterns where a set of possible types is observed.

Main Methods:

  • Maximum likelihood estimation using the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm under a missing-at-random assumption.
  • A novel Nelson-Aalen type estimator based on a least-squares method, utilizing conditional probabilities of true types.

Main Results:

  • Simulation studies indicate small bias for the proposed methods, even with a high proportion of missing data and sufficient observations.

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  • Estimates show sensitivity to misspecification of conditional probabilities when missingness is high.

    • Conclusions:

    • The proposed methods offer effective solutions for competing risks data with missing failure types.
    • Careful consideration of conditional probability specification is crucial, especially with substantial missing data.