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作者:Wu, L
作者单位:University of British Columbia
摘要:Nonlinear mixed-effects (NLME) models are popular in many longitudinal studies, including human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) viral dynamics, pharmacokinetic analyses, and studies of growth and decay. In practice, covariates in these studies often contain missing data, and so standard complete-data methods are not directly applicable. In this article we propose Monte Carlo parameter-expanded (PX)-EM algorithms for exact and approximate likelihood inferences for NLME models with missing covariat...
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作者:Ishwaran, H; James, LF
作者单位:Cleveland Clinic Foundation; Hong Kong University of Science & Technology
摘要:We develop computational procedures for a class of Bayesian nonparametric and semiparametric multiplicative intensity models incorporating kernel mixtures of spatial weighted gamma measures. A key feature of our approach is that explicit expressions for posterior distributions of these models share many common structural features with the posterior distributions of Bayesian hierarchical models using the Dirichlet process. Using this fact, along with an approximation for the weighted gamma proc...
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作者:Guo, WS; Ratcliffe, SJ; Ten Have, TT
作者单位:University of Pennsylvania
摘要:Pattern-mixture models are frequently used for longitudinal data analysis with dropouts because they do not require explicit specification Of the dropout mechanism. These models stratify the data according to time to dropout and formulate a model for each stratum. This usually results in underindentifiability, because we need to estimate many pattern-specific parameters even though the eventual interest is usually or, the marginal parameters. In this article we extend this framework to a rando...
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作者:Charnigo, R; Sun, JY
作者单位:University of Kentucky; University of Kentucky; University System of Ohio; Case Western Reserve University
摘要:Ascertaining the number of components in a mixture distribution is an interesting and challenging problem for statisticians. Chen, Chen. and Kalbfleisch recently proposed a modified likelihood ratio test (MLRT), which is distribution-free and locally most powerful, asymptotically. In this article we present a new method for testing whether a finite mixture distribution is homogeneous. Our method, the D test, is based on the L-2 distance between a fitted homogeneous model and a fitted heterogen...
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作者:Frangakis, CE; Brookmeyer, RS; Varadhan, R; Safaeian, M; Vlahov, D; Strathdee, SA
作者单位:Johns Hopkins University; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Johns Hopkins University; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; New York Academy of Medicine
摘要:We consider studies for evaluating the short-term effect of a treatment of interest on a time-to-event outcome. The studies we consider are partially controlled in the following sense: (I) Subjects' exposure to the treatment of interest can vary over time, but this exposure is not directly controlled by the study; (2) subjects' follow-up time is not directly controlled by the study; and (3) the study directly controls another factor that can affect subjects' exposure to the treatment of intere...
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作者:Yang, B; Kolassa, JE
作者单位:Merck & Company; Schering Plough Corporation; Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要:This article describes multivariate approximate conditional confidence regions for canonical exponential families. These confidence regions have actual coverage probabilities that are closer to their nominal levels than are the actual coverage probabilities of traditional normal-theory regions and have boundaries that are smoother than those obtained by inverting traditional exact tests. Our method is based on constructing one-dimensional conditional tests, combining p values, and inverting. M...
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作者:Efron, B
作者单位:Stanford University
摘要:Current scientific techniques in genomics and image processing routinely produce hypothesis testing problems with hundreds or thousands of cases to consider simultaneously. This poses new difficulties for the statistician, but also opens new opportunities. In particular, it allows empirical estimation of an appropriate null hypothesis. The empirical null may be considerably more dispersed than the usual theoretical null distribution that would be used for any one case considered separately. An...
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作者:Mason, RL
作者单位:Southwest Research Institute
摘要:The field of statistics has numerous areas of application and many positive attributes. Various companies and organizations around the world have chosen not only to adopt statistical tools, but also to integrate them into their associated work and ultimately into their decision making processes. Consequently, the value of statistics as a quantitative tool of importance to society appears to be continually increasing. In contrast, statisticians are less visible to society, and their importance ...
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作者:McCullagh, P
作者单位:University of Chicago
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作者:Serfling, R
作者单位:University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas