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  • Biostatistics
  • Survival Analysis
  • Computational Statistics

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  • Survival modeling with time-varying coefficients is crucial for analyzing time-to-event data with competing risks.
  • Existing methods face computational and numerical instability issues with large datasets (e.g., Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) Program data) and near-zero variance predictors.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a scalable and numerically stable algorithm for survival modeling with time-varying coefficients.
  • To address computational and memory limitations of existing methods for large-scale cancer data analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Proposed a proximal Newton algorithm with a shared-memory parallelization scheme.
  • Developed tests for significance and nonproportionality of time-varying effects.
  • Applied the algorithm to large-scale SEER cancer data.

Main Results:

  • The proposed scalable approach significantly reduces time and memory costs by orders of magnitude.
  • Demonstrated improved estimation accuracy compared to alternative methods.
  • Validated the real-world performance of the proximal Newton algorithm on SEER cancer data.

Conclusions:

  • The proximal Newton algorithm offers an efficient and accurate solution for survival modeling with time-varying coefficients in large datasets.
  • This method overcomes the limitations of existing approaches, enabling robust analysis of complex epidemiological data.