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Area of Science:

  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology
  • Clinical Trial Design

Background:

  • Evaluating longitudinal biomarkers is crucial but often cost-prohibitive with full cohort measurements.
  • Rare outcomes, like cancer, make full cohort studies infeasible.
  • Efficient and cost-effective study designs are needed for longitudinal biomarker evaluation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Develop estimators for accuracy and discrimination measures under case cohort (CCH) and nested case-control (NCC) designs.
  • Provide valid resampling-based variance estimation procedures for two-phase longitudinal data.
  • Address censoring and sampling bias in estimation and inference.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized double inverse probability weighting (DIPW) to handle bias.
  • Developed estimators for risk prediction accuracy and discrimination.
  • Employed simulation studies and a real-world clinical trial (HALT-C) for evaluation.

Main Results:

  • Proposed estimators and inference procedures perform well under CCH and NCC designs.
  • Performance is reliable with a reasonable effective sample size at prediction.
  • Methods demonstrated applicability and efficiency in a nested case-control study.

Conclusions:

  • CCH and NCC designs provide efficient and cost-effective methods for longitudinal biomarker evaluation.
  • The developed statistical methods are widely applicable and adaptable to other longitudinal prediction rule designs.
  • These approaches facilitate rigorous biomarker evaluation with reduced resource requirements.