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Semiparametric Modeling and Estimation of the Terminal Behavior of Recurrent Marker Processes Before Failure Events

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  • Kwun Chuen Gary Chan
  • Mei-Cheng Wang

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Recurrent event processes with marker measurements are mostly and largely studied with forward time models starting from an initial event. Interestingly, the processes could exhibit important terminal behavior during a time period before occurrence of the failure event. A natural and direct way to study recurrent events prior to a failure event is to align the processes using the failure event as the time origin and to examine the terminal behavior by a backward time model. This article studies regression models for backward recurrent marker processes by counting time backward from the failure event. A three-level semiparametric regression model is proposed for jointly modeling the time to a failure event, the backward recurrent event process, and the marker observed at the time of each backward recurrent event. The first level is a proportional hazards model for the failure time, the second level is a proportional rate model for the recurrent events occurring before the failure event, and the third level is a proportional mean model for the marker given the occurrence of a recurrent event backward in time. By jointly modeling the three components, estimating equations can be constructed for marked counting processes to estimate the target parameters in the three-level regression models. Large sample properties of the proposed estimators are studied and established. The proposed models and methods are illustrated by a community-based AIDS clinical trial to examine the terminal behavior of frequencies and severities of opportunistic infections among HIV-infected individuals in the last 6 months of life.

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  • Kwun Chuen Gary Chan & Mei-Cheng Wang, 2017. "Semiparametric Modeling and Estimation of the Terminal Behavior of Recurrent Marker Processes Before Failure Events," Journal of the American Statistical Association, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 112(517), pages 351-362, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:jnlasa:v:112:y:2017:i:517:p:351-362
    DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2016.1140051
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