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Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimators of Time-Dependent Accuracy Measures for Survival Outcome Under Two-Stage Sampling Designs.

ABSTRACT: Large prospective cohort studies of rare chronic diseases require thoughtful planning of study designs, especially for biomarker studies when measurements are based on stored tissue or blood specimens. Two-phase designs, including nested case-control (Thomas, 1977) and case-cohort (Prentice, 1986) sampling designs, provide cost-effective strategies for conducting biomarker evaluation studies. Existing literature for biomarker assessment under two-phase designs largely focuses on simple inverse probability weighting (IPW) estimators (Cai and Zheng, 2011; Liu et al., 2012). Drawing on recent theoretical development on the maximum likelihood estimators for relative risk parameters in two-phase studies (Scheike and Martinussen, 2004; Zeng et al., 2006), we propose nonparametric maximum likelihood based estimators to evaluate the accuracy and predictiveness of a risk prediction biomarker under both types of two-phase designs. In addition, hybrid estimators that combine IPW estimators and maximum likelihood estimation procedure are proposed to improve efficiency and alleviate computational burden. We derive large sample properties of proposed estimators and evaluate their finite sample performance using numerical studies. We illustrate new procedures using a two-phase biomarker study aiming to evaluate the accuracy of a novel biomarker, des-?-carboxy prothrombin, for early detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (Lok et al., 2010).

SUBMITTER: Liu D

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6291304 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimators of Time-Dependent Accuracy Measures for Survival Outcome Under Two-Stage Sampling Designs.

Liu Dandan D Cai Tianxi T Lok Anna A Zheng Yingye Y

Journal of the American Statistical Association 20170228 522

Large prospective cohort studies of rare chronic diseases require thoughtful planning of study designs, especially for biomarker studies when measurements are based on stored tissue or blood specimens. Two-phase designs, including nested case-control (Thomas, 1977) and case-cohort (Prentice, 1986) sampling designs, provide cost-effective strategies for conducting biomarker evaluation studies. Existing literature for biomarker assessment under two-phase designs largely focuses on simple inverse p ...[more]

PMID: 30555194

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