Predicting the restricted mean event time with the subject's baseline covariates in survival analysis

• Published in: Biostatistics (Oxford, England) Vol. 15; no. 2; pp. 222 - 233
• Main Authors: Tian, L., Zhao, L., Wei, L. J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford Publishing Limited (England) 01.04.2014; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Biostatistics; Clinical trials; HIV; HIV Infections - drug therapy; HIV Infections - mortality; Human immunodeficiency virus; Humans; Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary - mortality; Models, Statistical; Regression analysis; Survival Analysis; Time Factors; Accelerated failure time model; Cox model; Personalized medicine; Cross-validation; Perturbation-resampling method; Hold-out sample

For designing, monitoring, and analyzing a longitudinal study with an event time as the outcome variable, the restricted mean event time (RMET) is an easily interpretable, clinically meaningful summary of the survival function in the presence of censoring. The RMET is the average of all potential ev...