Testing for change‐point in the covariate effects based on the Cox regression model
Models with change‐point in covariates have wide applications in cancer research with the response being the time to a certain event. A Cox model with change‐point in covariate is considered at which the pattern of the change‐point effects can be flexibly specified. To test for the existence of the...
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Published in | Statistics in medicine Vol. 39; no. 10; pp. 1473 - 1488 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
Published |
England
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
15.05.2020
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Summary: | Models with change‐point in covariates have wide applications in cancer research with the response being the time to a certain event. A Cox model with change‐point in covariate is considered at which the pattern of the change‐point effects can be flexibly specified. To test for the existence of the change‐point effects, three statistical tests, namely, the maximal score, maximal normalized score, and maximal Wald tests are proposed. The asymptotic properties of the test statistics are established. Monte Carlo approaches to simulate the critical values are suggested. A large‐scale simulation study is carried out to study the finite sample performance of the proposed test statistics under the null hypothesis of no change‐points and various alternative hypothesis settings. Each of the proposed methods provides a natural estimate for the location of the change‐point, but it is found that the performance of the maximal score test can be sensitive to the true location of the change‐point in some cases, while the performance of the maximal Wald test is very satisfactory in general even in cases with moderate sample size. For illustration, the proposed methods are applied to two medical datasets concerning patients with primary biliary cirrhosis and breast cancer, respectively. |
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Bibliography: | Funding information National Natural Science Foundation of China, 11871402; Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, JBK1806002 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 0277-6715 1097-0258 |
DOI: | 10.1002/sim.8491 |