WHEN DOES ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE BEGIN? KAPLAN-MEIER VERSUS TURNBULL: AN APPLICATION TO ARBITRARY CENSORING DATA

Most of the survival analysis are based on exact failure times and right censored observations, using methods widely known as the Kaplan-Meier (KM). To estimate the onset age of familial Alzheimer's Disease (AD) when the censor times are arbitrary (right, left or interval censor), what is the c...

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Veröffentlicht in:Revista Colombiana de estadística 2012-06, Vol.35 (2), p.239
Hauptverfasser: Lopera-Gómez, Carlos Mario, Jaramillo-Elorza, Mario César, Acosta-Baena, Natalia
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Zusammenfassung:Most of the survival analysis are based on exact failure times and right censored observations, using methods widely known as the Kaplan-Meier (KM). To estimate the onset age of familial Alzheimer's Disease (AD) when the censor times are arbitrary (right, left or interval censor), what is the change in clinical outcomes, using the KM method with data imputation compared with procedure proposed by Turnbull for this kind of data? Turnbull's method was compared with KM method in a simulation study and an application with real data. KM method was based on data imputation through the midpoint of the interval (MP) and the right side of the interval (RS), considering several sample sizes and different times between visits. In all simulation scenarios estimated functions using data imputation differ significantly from the actual simulated survival function S(t). The estimated onset age of AD through data imputation methods has relevant clinical implications that would affect decision-making in initiating preventive therapy. Turnbull's method has fewer bias when was compared with KM with imputation to perform a survival analysis with arbitrary censure data.
ISSN:0120-1751
2389-8976