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Counting process-based dimension reduction methods for censored outcomes.

ABSTRACT: We propose counting process-based dimension reduction methods for right-censored survival data. Semiparametric estimating equations are constructed to estimate the dimension reduction subspace for the failure time model. Our methods address two limitations of existing approaches. First, using the counting process formulation, they do not require estimation of the censoring distribution to compensate for the bias in estimating the dimension reduction subspace. Second, the nonparametric estimation involved adapts to the structural dimension, so our methods circumvent the curse of dimensionality. Asymptotic normality is established for the estimators. We propose a computationally efficient approach that requires only a singular value decomposition to estimate the dimension reduction subspace. Numerical studies suggest that our new approaches exhibit significantly improved performance. The methods are implemented in the [Formula: see text] package [Formula: see text].

SUBMITTER: Sun Q

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6373420 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Counting process-based dimension reduction methods for censored outcomes.

Sun Qiang Q Zhu Ruoqing R Wang Tao T Zeng Donglin D

Biometrika 20190107 1

We propose counting process-based dimension reduction methods for right-censored survival data. Semiparametric estimating equations are constructed to estimate the dimension reduction subspace for the failure time model. Our methods address two limitations of existing approaches. First, using the counting process formulation, they do not require estimation of the censoring distribution to compensate for the bias in estimating the dimension reduction subspace. Second, the nonparametric estimation ...[more]

PMID: 30799878

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Project description:MotivationOne of the major goals in large-scale genomic studies is to identify genes with a prognostic impact on time-to-event outcomes which provide insight into the disease process. With rapid developments in high-throughput genomic technologies in the past two decades, the scientific community is able to monitor the expression levels of tens of thousands of genes and proteins resulting in enormous datasets where the number of genomic features is far greater than the number of subjects. Methods based on univariate Cox regression are often used to select genomic features related to survival outcome; however, the Cox model assumes proportional hazards (PH), which is unlikely to hold for each feature. When applied to genomic features exhibiting some form of non-proportional hazards (NPH), these methods could lead to an under- or over-estimation of the effects. We propose a broad array of marginal screening techniques that aid in feature ranking and selection by accommodating various forms of NPH. First, we develop an approach based on Kullback-Leibler information divergence and the Yang-Prentice model that includes methods for the PH and proportional odds (PO) models as special cases. Next, we propose R2 measures for the PH and PO models that can be interpreted in terms of explained randomness. Lastly, we propose a generalized pseudo-R2 index that includes PH, PO, crossing hazards and crossing odds models as special cases and can be interpreted as the percentage of separability between subjects experiencing the event and not experiencing the event according to feature measurements.ResultsWe evaluate the performance of our measures using extensive simulation studies and publicly available datasets in cancer genomics. We demonstrate that the proposed methods successfully address the issue of NPH in genomic feature selection and outperform existing methods.Availability and implementationR code for the proposed methods is available at github.com/lburns27/Feature-Selection.Contactkarthik.devarajan@fccc.edu.Supplementary informationSupplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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