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  • Biostatistics

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  • Characterizing infectious disease symptom duration is vital for public health.
  • Current status data, collected by surveying individuals about their symptom status at a specific time, offers a method to assess symptom duration with reduced recall bias.
  • Analyzing current status data requires specialized statistical tools.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To review existing methods for analyzing current status data.
  • To introduce a novel nonparametric approach for analyzing current status data.
  • To provide tools for investigators dealing with current status data in infectious disease research.

Main Methods:

  • Review of current status data analysis methods.
  • Application of modern nonparametric techniques, including machine learning tools.
  • Development of a sensitivity analysis to assess deviations from the conditional independence assumption.

Main Results:

  • An estimated 19% of participants had ongoing symptoms 30 days after testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, decreasing to 7% at 90 days.
  • Sensitivity analyses indicated greater impact of assumption violations at 30 days versus 90 days.
  • Female sex, fatigue during acute infection, and higher viral load were associated with slower symptom resolution.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed nonparametric method offers a valid approach for analyzing current status data under weaker assumptions.
  • The accompanying sensitivity analysis procedure enhances the reliability of results derived from current status data.
  • These tools are valuable for researchers studying infectious disease symptom duration.