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- Document 0690
- DOCN M9610690
- TI Hazard function estimation using B-splines.
- DT 9601
- AU Rosenberg PS; National Cancer Institute, Epidemiologic Methods Section,;
- Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA.
- SO Biometrics. 1995 Sep;51(3):874-87. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
- MED/96054334
- AB A flexible parametric procedure is given to model the hazard function as
- a linear combination of cubic B-splines and to obtain maximum likelihood
- estimates from censored survival data. The approach yields smooth
- estimates of the hazard and survivorship functions that are intermediate
- in structure between strongly parametric and non-parametric models. A
- simple method is described for selecting the number and location of
- knots. Simulation results show favorable root mean square error compared
- to non-parametric estimates for both the hazard and survivorship
- functions. Three methods are given to calculate confidence intervals
- based on the delta method, profile likelihood, and bootstrap,
- respectively. The procedure is applied to estimate hazard rates for
- acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) following infection with human
- immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Spline methods can accommodate complex
- censoring mechanisms such as those that arise in the AIDS setting. To
- illustrate, HIV infection incidence is estimated for a cohort of
- hemophiliacs in which the dates of HIV infection are interval-censored
- and some subjects were born after the onset of the HIV epidemic.
- DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/MORTALITY *Biometry
- Bisexuality Comparative Study Confidence Intervals Homosexuality,
- Male Human HIV HIV Infections/*EPIDEMIOLOGY/PHYSIOPATHOLOGY Male
- Mathematics *Models, Statistical Survival Rate Time Factors JOURNAL
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