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- Title
Likelihood estimation for a longitudinal negative binomial regression model with missing outcomes.
- Authors
Bond, Simon J.; Farewell, Vernon T.
- Abstract
Joint damage in psoriatic arthritis can be measured by clinical and radiological methods, the former being done more frequently during longitudinal follow-up of patients. Motivated by the need to compare findings based on the different methods with different observation patterns, we consider longitudinal data where the outcome variable is a cumulative total of counts that can be unobserved when other, informative, explanatory variables are recorded. We demonstrate how to calculate the likelihood for such data when it is assumed that the increment in the cumulative total follows a discrete distribution with a location parameter that depends on a linear function of explanatory variables. An approach to the incorporation of informative observation is suggested. We present analyses based on an observational database from a psoriatic arthritis clinic. Although the use of the new statistical methodology has relatively little effect in this example, simulation studies indicate that the method can provide substantial improvements in bias and coverage in some situations where there is an important time varying explanatory variable.
- Subjects
DATABASES; PROBABILITY theory; REGRESSION analysis; PSORIATIC arthritis; SIMULATION methods &; models; MATHEMATICS; PATIENTS
- Publication
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics), 2009, Vol 58, Issue 3, p369
- ISSN
0035-9254
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9876.2008.00651.x