Estimation of odds of concordance based on the Aalen additive model

T Martinussen; CB Pipper

Estimation of odds of concordance based on the Aalen additive model

Section of Biostatistics

7 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

The Cox regression model is often used when analyzing survival data as it provides a convenient way of summarizing covariate effects in terms of relative risks. The proportional hazards assumption may not hold, however. A typical violation of the assumption is time-changing covariate effects. Under such scenarios one may use more flexible models but the results from such models may be complicated to communicate and it is desirable to have simple measures of a treatment effect, say. In this paper we focus on the odds-of-concordance measure that was recently studied by Schemper et al. (Stat Med 28:2473-2489, 2009). They suggested to estimate this measure using weighted Cox regression (WCR). Although WCR may work in many scenarios no formal proof can be established. We suggest an alternative estimator of the odds-of-concordance measure based on the Aalen additive hazards model. In contrast to the WCR, one may derive the large sample properties for this estimator making formal inference possible. The estimator also allows for additional covariate effects.

Original language	Undefined/Unknown
Journal	Lifetime Data Analysis
Volume	19
Issue number	1
Pages (from-to)	100-116
Number of pages	17
ISSN	1380-7870
Publication status	Published - Dec 2012

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