This article investigates a generalized semiparametric varying-coefficient model for longitudinal data that can flexibly model three types of covariate effects: time-constant effects, time-varying effects, and covariate-varying effects. Different link functions can be selected to provide a rich family of models for longitudinal data. The model assumes that the time-varying effects are unspecified functions of time and the covariate-varying effects are parametric functions of an exposure variable specified up to a finite number of unknown parameters. The estimation procedure is developed using local linear smoothing and profile weighted least squares estimation techniques. Hypothesis testing procedures are developed to test the parametric functions of the covariate-varying effects. The asymptotic distributions of the proposed estimators are established. A working formula for bandwidth selection is discussed and examined through simulations. Our simulation study shows that the proposed methods have satisfactory finite sample performance. The proposed methods are applied to the ACTG 244 clinical trial of HIV infected patients being treated with Zidovudine to examine the effects of antiretroviral treatment switching before and after HIV develops the T215Y/F drug resistance mutation. Our analysis shows benefits of treatment switching to the combination therapies as compared to continuing with ZDV monotherapy before and after developing the 215-mutation.
This paper investigates the semiparametric statistical methods for recurrent events. The mean number of the recurrent events are modeled with the generalized semiparametric varying‐coefficient model that can flexibly model three types of covariate effects: time‐constant effects, time‐varying effects, and covariate‐varying effects. We assume that the time‐varying effects are unspecified functions of time and the covariate‐varying effects are parametric functions of an exposure variable specified up to a finite number of unknown parameters. Different link functions can be selected to provide a rich family of models for recurrent events data. The profile estimation methods are developed for the parametric and nonparametric components. The asymptotic properties are established. We also develop some hypothesis testing procedures to test validity of the parametric forms of covariate‐varying effects. The simulation study shows that both estimation and hypothesis testing procedures perform well. The proposed method is applied to analyze a data set from an acyclovir study and investigate whether acyclovir treatment reduces the mean relapse recurrences.
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- 10063886
- Publisher / Repository:
- Wiley Blackwell (John Wiley & Sons)
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- Journal Name:
- Statistics in Medicine
- Volume:
- 37
- Issue:
- 27
- ISSN:
- 0277-6715
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- p. 3959-3974
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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