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  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology
  • Medical Informatics

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  • Biomedical datasets frequently contain incomplete recurrent outcomes data.
  • Recurrent event information is often a mix of recurrent event, panel count, and panel binary data, termed general mixed recurrent event data.
  • Existing methods lack established regression analysis for this combined data structure, leading to ad-hoc solutions with potential drawbacks.

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  • To propose a novel maximum likelihood regression estimation procedure for general mixed recurrent event data.
  • To establish the asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators.
  • To extend the methodology to accommodate terminal events in recurrent event analysis.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a maximum likelihood estimation procedure for combined general mixed recurrent event data.
  • Theoretical establishment of asymptotic properties for the developed estimators.
  • Generalization of the method to incorporate terminal events.

Main Results:

  • The proposed maximum likelihood method provides a robust approach for analyzing mixed recurrent event data.
  • The procedure demonstrates good performance in numerical simulations.
  • Application to the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study validates the practical utility of the method.

Conclusions:

  • The developed maximum likelihood regression procedure effectively addresses the challenge of analyzing general mixed recurrent event data.
  • The method offers an improvement over ad-hoc techniques, enhancing robustness and efficiency.
  • The generalized approach is suitable for complex biomedical data, including those with terminal events.