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Auteurs principaux: Hariharan, Pavithra, Sankaran, P. G.
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Publié: 2024
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09892
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author Hariharan, Pavithra
Sankaran, P. G.
author_facet Hariharan, Pavithra
Sankaran, P. G.
contents Analysis of lifetime data from epidemiological studies or destructive testing often involves current status censoring, wherein individuals are examined only once and their event status is recorded only at that specific time point. In practice, some of these individuals may never experience the event of interest, leading to current status data with a cured fraction. Cure models are used to estimate the proportion of non-susceptible individuals, the distribution of susceptible ones, and covariate effects. Motivated from a biological interpretation of cancer metastasis, promotion time cure model is a popular alternative to the mixture cure rate model for analysing such data. The current study is the first to put forth a Bayesian inference procedure for analysing current status data with a cure fraction, resorting to a promotion time cure model. An adaptive Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is utilised for posterior computation. Simulation studies prove our approach's efficiency, while analyses of lung tumor and breast cancer data illustrate its practical utility. This approach has the potential to improve clinical cure rates through the incorporation of prior knowledge regarding the disease dynamics and therapeutic options.
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spellingShingle A Bayesian promotion time cure model with current status data
Hariharan, Pavithra
Sankaran, P. G.
Methodology
Analysis of lifetime data from epidemiological studies or destructive testing often involves current status censoring, wherein individuals are examined only once and their event status is recorded only at that specific time point. In practice, some of these individuals may never experience the event of interest, leading to current status data with a cured fraction. Cure models are used to estimate the proportion of non-susceptible individuals, the distribution of susceptible ones, and covariate effects. Motivated from a biological interpretation of cancer metastasis, promotion time cure model is a popular alternative to the mixture cure rate model for analysing such data. The current study is the first to put forth a Bayesian inference procedure for analysing current status data with a cure fraction, resorting to a promotion time cure model. An adaptive Metropolis-Hastings algorithm is utilised for posterior computation. Simulation studies prove our approach's efficiency, while analyses of lung tumor and breast cancer data illustrate its practical utility. This approach has the potential to improve clinical cure rates through the incorporation of prior knowledge regarding the disease dynamics and therapeutic options.
title A Bayesian promotion time cure model with current status data
topic Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09892