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  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology
  • Clinical Research

Background:

  • Doubly truncated data commonly arise in clinical and epidemiological studies, often due to interval sampling.
  • This truncation can introduce sampling bias, necessitating corrections for standard estimation and inference procedures.
  • Existing nonparametric maximum likelihood estimators for doubly truncated data have drawbacks, including potential nonexistence, nonuniqueness, and high variance.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce formal testing procedures for ignorable sampling bias in doubly truncated data.
  • To provide a method for identifying situations where bias correction is unnecessary, enabling simpler and more efficient estimation.
  • To demonstrate variance improvements in estimation through identification of ignorable bias.

Main Methods:

  • Development of formal testing procedures for the null hypothesis of ignorable sampling bias.
  • Investigation of the asymptotic properties of the proposed test statistic.
  • Implementation of a bootstrap algorithm to approximate the null distribution of the test statistic in practice.
  • Evaluation of the method's finite sample performance through simulated scenarios.

Main Results:

  • The study introduces novel testing procedures for ignorable sampling bias in doubly truncated data.
  • Asymptotic properties of the proposed test statistic were investigated.
  • A bootstrap algorithm was developed for practical application of the test.
  • Simulations demonstrated the method's performance, with applications to childhood cancer and Parkinson's disease onset data.

Conclusions:

  • Identification of ignorable sampling bias is critical for simple and efficient estimation with doubly truncated data.
  • The proposed testing procedures offer a valuable tool for biostatisticians and epidemiologists.
  • Using the empirical distribution function when bias is ignorable leads to significant variance improvements compared to traditional methods.