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Modelling non-linear patterns of time-varying intervention effects on recurrent events in infectious disease
Yin Bun Cheung1,2,3, Xiangmei Ma1, K F Lam1,4
1Centre for Quantitative Medicine, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore.
Abstract:
Protective efficacy of vaccines and pharmaceutical products for prevention of infectious diseases usually vary over time. Information on the trajectory of the level of protection is valuable. We consider a parsimonious, non-linear and non-monotonic function for modelling time-varying intervention effects and compare it with several alternatives. The cumulative effects of multiple doses of intervention over time can be captured by an additive series of the function. We apply it to the Andersen-Gill model for analysis of recurrent time-to-event data. We re-analyze data from a trial of intermittent preventive treatment for malaria to illustrate and evaluate the method by simulation.
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