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Counts and times to events

J K Lindsey1

  • 1Department of Medical Statistics, De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K. jlindsey@dmu.ac.uk

Statistics in Medicine
|September 28, 1998
PubMed
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Analyzing event occurrences requires focusing on the timing of each event, not just total counts. This approach avoids misinterpreting patient data and accounts for individual patient histories over time.

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Area of Science:

  • Biostatistics
  • Survival Analysis
  • Medical Statistics

Background:

  • Medical statistics often summarize patient responses as event counts.
  • Global event counts can obscure patient health evolution over time.
  • This can lead to misinterpretations, such as attributing overdispersion to patient frailty.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To advocate for disaggregating event data to study time-to-event.
  • To highlight the limitations of using global event counts.
  • To address the complexities of repeated event data within individuals.

Main Methods:

  • Analyzing time-to-event data instead of event counts.
  • Considering serial dependence in repeated measures for individual patients.
  • Accounting for potential frailty among different patients.

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Main Results:

  • Disaggregating data reveals patient state evolution, unlike global counts.
  • Focusing on time-to-event data prevents misinterpretation of overdispersion as frailty.
  • Repeated event times within a patient are interrelated and require specific statistical treatment.

Conclusions:

  • Studying time-to-event data provides a more accurate representation of patient health trajectories.
  • Appropriate statistical methods are crucial for handling repeated measures and patient-specific factors.
  • This approach enhances the understanding of event occurrences in medical statistics.