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A Simulation-Extrapolation Approach to the Analysis of Interval-Censored Failure Time Data with Mis-Measured Covariates

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Interval-censored failure time data arise frequently in periodical follow-up studies including clinical trials and epidemiological surveys. In addition, some covariates may be subject to measurement errors due to the instrumental contamination, biological variation or other reasons. For the analysis of interval-censored data with mis-measured covariates, the existing methods either assume a parametric model or rely on the availability of replicated surrogate measurements for the error-prone covariate, which both have obvious limitations. To overcome these shortcomings, the authors propose a simulation-extrapolation estimation procedure under a general class of transformation models. The resulting estimators are shown to be consistent and asymptotically normal. The numerical results obtained from a simulation study indicate that the proposed method performs reasonably well in practice. In particular, the proposed method can reduce the estimation bias given by the naive method that does not take measurement errors into account. Finally, the proposed method is applied to a real data set on hypobaric decompression sickness.

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  1. School of Economics and Statistics, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China

    Fan Feng & Shuwei Li

  2. School of Mathematics, Jilin University, Changchun, 130021, China

    Fan Feng & Shishun Zhao

  3. Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA

    Jianguo Sun

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This research was supported by the National Statistical Science Research Project under Grant No. 2022LY041, and the Nature Science Foundation of Guangdong Province of China under Grant No. 2021A1515010044, and the National Nature Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 12071176.

This paper was recommended for publication by Editor LI Qizhai.

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Feng, F., Zhao, S., Li, S. et al. A Simulation-Extrapolation Approach to the Analysis of Interval-Censored Failure Time Data with Mis-Measured Covariates. J Syst Sci Complex 37, 2721–2737 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11424-024-3549-6

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