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  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology
  • Vaccinology

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  • Time-to-event data analysis presents challenges when event types are indistinguishable without confirmation.
  • Uncertainty arises from non-monotonically missing confirmation data, impacting risk assessment.
  • Accurate estimation of vaccine efficacy is crucial for public health interventions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate novel statistical methods for analyzing time-to-event data with uncertain event types.
  • To improve the estimation of covariate effects and vaccine efficacy in complex survival settings.
  • To address the limitations of existing methods in handling partially confirmed events.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed two novel methods: a pathway expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm and a non-iterative pathway piecewise validation method.
  • The pathway EM algorithm iteratively estimates baseline hazards to weight possible event types.
  • Compared proposed methods with a simpler existing approach using simulation studies.

Main Results:

  • Simulation studies indicated that estimating baseline hazards leads to lower mean squared error in efficacy estimates.
  • The pathway EM-algorithm demonstrated improved performance, especially at higher hazard rates.
  • The pathway EM-algorithm was used to reevaluate influenza vaccine efficacy from a previous study.

Conclusions:

  • The developed methods provide robust approaches for analyzing time-to-event data with indistinguishable events.
  • Estimating baseline hazards significantly improves the accuracy of vaccine efficacy estimates.
  • The study offers valuable tools for epidemiological research and vaccine effectiveness evaluation.