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Establishing a Competing Risk Regression Nomogram Model for Survival Data
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Quantile modeling through multivariate log-normal/independent linear regression models with application to newborn
Raúl Alejandro Morán-Vásquez1, Mauricio A Mazo-Lopera2, Silvia L P Ferrari3
1Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia.
Abstract:
In this article, we propose and study the class of multivariate log-normal/independent distributions and linear regression models based on this class. The class of multivariate log-normal/independent distributions is very attractive for robust statistical modeling because it includes several heavy-tailed distributions suitable for modeling correlated multivariate positive data that are skewed and possibly heavy-tailed. Besides, expectation-maximization (EM)-type algorithms can be easily implemented for maximum likelihood estimation. We model the relationship between quantiles of the response variables and a set of explanatory variables, compute the maximum likelihood estimates of parameters through EM-type algorithms, and evaluate the model fitting based on Mahalanobis-type distances. The satisfactory performance of the quantile estimation is verified by simulation studies. An application to newborn data is presented and discussed.
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