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Linear transformation models for survival analysis with tumor growth information in cancer screening study
Authors:Pao-Sheng Shen
Institution:Department of Statistics, Tunghai University, Taichung, Taiwan
Abstract:The complication in analyzing tumor data is that the tumors detected in a screening program tend to be slowly progressive tumors, which is the so-called left-truncated sampling that is inherent in screening studies. Under the assumption that all subjects have the same tumor growth function, Ghosh (2008 Ghosh, D. (2008). Proportional hazards regression for cancer studies. Biometrics 64:141148.Crossref], PubMed], Web of Science ®] Google Scholar]) developed estimation procedures for the Cox proportional hazards model. Shen (2011a Shen, P.-S. (2011a). Proportional hazards regression for cancer screening data. J. Stat. Comput. Simul. 18:367377.Taylor &; Francis Online], Web of Science ®] Google Scholar]) demonstrated that Ghosh (2008 Ghosh, D. (2008). Proportional hazards regression for cancer studies. Biometrics 64:141148.Crossref], PubMed], Web of Science ®] Google Scholar])'s approach can be extended to the case when each subject has a specific growth function. In this article, under linear transformation model, we present a general framework to the analysis of data from cancer screening studies. We developed estimation procedures under linear transformation model, which includes Cox's model as a special case. A simulation study is conducted to demonstrate the potential usefulness of the proposed estimators.
Keywords:Cancer screening studies  Left-truncated  Semiparametric transformation model
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