Log-rank test with coarsened exact matching

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Hauptverfasser: Baba, Tomoya, Yoshida, Nakahiro
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author Baba, Tomoya
Yoshida, Nakahiro
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Yoshida, Nakahiro
contents It is of special importance in the clinical trial to compare survival times between the treatment group and the control group. Propensity score methods with a logistic regression model are often used to reduce the effects of confounders. However, the modeling of complex structures between the covariates, the treatment assignment and the survival time is difficult. In this paper, we consider coarsened exact matching (CEM), which does not need any parametric models, and we propose the weighted log-rank statistic based on CEM. We derive asymptotic properties of the weighted log-rank statistic, such as the weak convergence to a Gaussian process in Skorokhod space, in particular the asymptotic normality, under the null hypothesis and the consistency of the log-rank test. Simulation experiments are also conducted to compare the performance of the log-rank statistic with a propensity score method and CEM. Simulation studies show that the log-rank statistic based on CEM is more robust than the log-rank statistic based on the propensity score.
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Baba, Tomoya
Yoshida, Nakahiro
Statistics Theory
It is of special importance in the clinical trial to compare survival times between the treatment group and the control group. Propensity score methods with a logistic regression model are often used to reduce the effects of confounders. However, the modeling of complex structures between the covariates, the treatment assignment and the survival time is difficult. In this paper, we consider coarsened exact matching (CEM), which does not need any parametric models, and we propose the weighted log-rank statistic based on CEM. We derive asymptotic properties of the weighted log-rank statistic, such as the weak convergence to a Gaussian process in Skorokhod space, in particular the asymptotic normality, under the null hypothesis and the consistency of the log-rank test. Simulation experiments are also conducted to compare the performance of the log-rank statistic with a propensity score method and CEM. Simulation studies show that the log-rank statistic based on CEM is more robust than the log-rank statistic based on the propensity score.
title Log-rank test with coarsened exact matching
topic Statistics Theory
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16121