Empirical Bayes estimation for additive hazards regression models
We develop a novel empirical Bayesian framework for the semiparametric additive hazards regression model. The integrated likelihood, obtained by integration over the unknown prior of the nonparametric baseline cumulative hazard, can be maximized using standard statistical software. Unlike the corresponding full Bayes method, our empirical Bayes estimators of regression parameters, survival curves and their corresponding standard errors have easily computed closed-form expressions and require no elicitation of hyperparameters of the prior. The method guarantees a monotone estimator of the survival function and accommodates time-varying regression coefficients and covariates. To facilitate frequentist-type inference based on large-sample approximation, we present the asymptotic properties of the semiparametric empirical Bayes estimates. We illustrate the implementation and advantages of our methodology with a reanalysis of a survival dataset and a simulation study. Copyright 2009, Oxford University Press.
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2009
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Authors: | Sinha, Debajyoti ; McHenry, M. Brent ; Lipsitz, Stuart R. ; Ghosh, Malay |
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Biometrika. - Biometrika Trust, ISSN 0006-3444. - Vol. 96.2009, 3, p. 545-558
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Biometrika Trust |
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