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  • Biostatistics
  • Survival Analysis
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Semi-competing risks data analysis often requires complete covariate information, which is frequently unavailable in practice.
  • Existing methods may not adequately address scenarios with missing covariate data in time-to-event analyses.
  • Nested case-control designs offer strategies for subsampling patients to collect complete data.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate methods for semi-competing risks analysis using data from nested case-control studies, especially with incomplete covariate information.
  • To introduce the supplemented nested case-control design for enhanced data collection on both non-terminal and terminal events.
  • To propose robust estimation and standard error calculation methods for these designs.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized existing nested case-control data, reusing risk sets based on non-terminal or terminal events.
  • Introduced a supplemented nested case-control design for collecting data on both event types.
  • Employed maximum weighted likelihood estimation within a frailty illness-death model, with parametric or semi-parametric baseline hazard functions (B-splines).
  • Proposed sandwich and perturbation resampling estimators for standard errors.
  • Derived asymptotic properties and evaluated small-sample performance via simulation.

Main Results:

  • The proposed methods and designs are suitable for semi-competing risks analysis with incomplete covariate data.
  • The supplemented nested case-control design provides a valuable approach for comprehensive data collection.
  • Simulation studies demonstrated the small-sample properties of the estimation methods.
  • The methods were successfully applied to identify risk factors for acute graft-versus-host disease.

Conclusions:

  • The developed methods offer effective solutions for semi-competing risks analysis in the presence of missing covariate data.
  • The supplemented nested case-control design is a practical enhancement for observational studies.
  • These advancements improve the ability to investigate risk factors in complex clinical scenarios, such as hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.