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  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology
  • Survival Analysis

Background:

  • Case-cohort and nested case-control designs are cost-effective alternatives to full-cohort studies.
  • Efficient statistical methods are needed for analyzing survival data under these designs.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose an efficient likelihood-based estimation method for the accelerated failure time (AFT) model.
  • To apply this method to case-cohort and nested case-control designs.
  • To assess the statistical properties and performance of the proposed estimators.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a likelihood-based estimation method for the AFT model.
  • Utilized an Expectation-Maximization (EM) algorithm to maximize the likelihood function.
  • Incorporated a kernel smoothing technique within the M-step of the EM algorithm.
  • Employed an EM-aided numerical differentiation method for variance estimation.

Main Results:

  • The proposed estimators for regression coefficients are consistent and asymptotically normal.
  • The asymptotic variance of the estimators can be consistently estimated.
  • Simulation studies demonstrated the finite-sample performance of the estimators.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method provides an efficient and statistically sound approach for AFT model analysis in case-cohort and nested case-control studies.
  • The methodology is applicable to real-world survival data, as shown in the Wilms tumor dataset example.