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  • Statistics
  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology

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  • Standard prognostic factor evaluation often assumes static covariate effects.
  • This static approach can lead to underestimating the importance of dynamic disease markers.
  • Chronic diseases often involve complex physiological mechanisms with time-varying influences.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a flexible testing framework for assessing both constant and dynamic covariate effects.
  • To address the limitations of static analyses in evaluating disease prognostic factors.
  • To improve the assessment of disease markers by considering their varying influences over time.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing globally concerned quantile regression.
  • Developing a testing framework based on Kolmogorov-Smirnov (K-S) and Cramér-Von Mises (C-V) type statistics.
  • Employing a resampling procedure to handle complex limit distributions of test statistics.

Main Results:

  • The proposed framework rigorously assesses constant or dynamic covariate effects.
  • Theoretical results include limit null distributions and consistency under general alternatives.
  • The resampling procedure is justified and effective for complex distributions.

Conclusions:

  • The new testing procedures offer advantages over existing methods for assessing dynamic covariate effects.
  • The framework provides a more comprehensive understanding of prognostic factors in chronic diseases.
  • Simulation studies and a real data example validate the utility and superiority of the proposed approach.