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Area of Science:

  • Biostatistics
  • Longitudinal Data Analysis
  • Survival Analysis

Background:

  • Recurrent events are common in longitudinal studies.
  • Dependent censoring, often due to disease progression, complicates analysis.
  • Existing methods may not adequately handle complex dependence structures.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose flexible marginal regression models for recurrent events and dependent censoring.
  • To generalize existing statistical approaches for dependent censoring.
  • To develop robust methods for analyzing complex longitudinal data.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing artificial censoring to maintain error variable homogeneity.
  • Applying artificial censoring to two Gehan-type statistics.
  • Incorporating order information and observed censoring times for enhanced analysis.
  • Developing a model-checking procedure for assessing model fit.

Main Results:

  • Proposed estimators demonstrate good asymptotic properties.
  • Simulations confirm favorable finite-sample performance.
  • The methods are successfully applied to AIDS cohort data.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed flexible marginal regression models effectively handle dependent censoring in recurrent events data.
  • The artificial censoring technique offers a robust approach for complex longitudinal data.
  • The methods provide valuable tools for analyzing health-related longitudinal studies, such as the AIDS cohort data.