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Area of Science:

  • Biostatistics
  • Survival Analysis
  • Epidemiology

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  • Competing risks data analysis is crucial in survival analysis to address dependent event occurrences.
  • Discrete-time models are valuable as event times are frequently recorded on discrete scales.
  • Measurement errors in covariates pose a significant challenge in regression analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop regression analysis methods for discrete-time competing risks data with errors-in-variables.
  • To extend conditional score methods to discrete-time competing risks models, including cause-specific and subdistribution hazards.
  • To provide efficient computation algorithms and establish large sample theories for the proposed estimators.

Main Methods:

  • Development of conditional score methods treating true covariate values as parameters.
  • Application to discrete-time cause-specific hazards models.
  • Application to discrete-time subdistribution hazards models.

Main Results:

  • Proposed estimators demonstrate satisfactory finite sample performance through simulations.
  • Efficient computation algorithms are available for the developed methods.
  • Large sample theories for the estimators are readily obtainable.

Conclusions:

  • The conditional score methods effectively address measurement errors in discrete-time competing risks regression.
  • The proposed methods are applicable to popular competing risks models.
  • The approach proved useful in analyzing scleroderma lung study data.