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- Title
Threshold regression to accommodate a censored covariate.
- Authors
Qian, Jing; Chiou, Sy Han; Maye, Jacqueline E.; Atem, Folefac; Johnson, Keith A.; Betensky, Rebecca A.
- Abstract
Summary: In several common study designs, regression modeling is complicated by the presence of censored covariates. Examples of such covariates include maternal age of onset of dementia that may be right censored in an Alzheimer's amyloid imaging study of healthy subjects, metabolite measurements that are subject to limit of detection censoring in a case‐control study of cardiovascular disease, and progressive biomarkers whose baseline values are of interest, but are measured post‐baseline in longitudinal neuropsychological studies of Alzheimer's disease. We propose threshold regression approaches for linear regression models with a covariate that is subject to random censoring. Threshold regression methods allow for immediate testing of the significance of the effect of a censored covariate. In addition, they provide for unbiased estimation of the regression coefficient of the censored covariate. We derive the asymptotic properties of the resulting estimators under mild regularity conditions. Simulations demonstrate that the proposed estimators have good finite‐sample performance, and often offer improved efficiency over existing methods. We also derive a principled method for selection of the threshold. We illustrate the approach in application to an Alzheimer's disease study that investigated brain amyloid levels in older individuals, as measured through positron emission tomography scans, as a function of maternal age of dementia onset, with adjustment for other covariates. We have developed an R package, censCov, for implementation of our method, available at CRAN.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of covariance; DEMENTIA; MATERNAL age; ALZHEIMER'S disease; AMYLOID
- Publication
Biometrics, 2018, Vol 74, Issue 4, p1261
- ISSN
0006-341X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/biom.12922