Journal
STATISTICS IN MEDICINE
Volume 32, Issue 30, Pages 5381-5397Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5958
Keywords
AUC; competing risks; discrimination; inverse probability of censoring weighting; prognosis; survival analysis
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- France Alzheimer
- IPSEN laboratory
- Novartis laboratory
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The area under the time-dependent ROC curve (AUC) may be used to quantify the ability of a marker to predict the onset of a clinical outcome in the future. For survival analysis with competing risks, two alternative definitions of the specificity may be proposed depending of the way to deal with subjects who undergo the competing events. In this work, we propose nonparametric inverse probability of censoring weighting estimators of the AUC corresponding to these two definitions, and we study their asymptotic properties. We derive confidence intervals and test statistics for the equality of the AUCs obtained with two markers measured on the same subjects. A simulation study is performed to investigate the finite sample behaviour of the test and the confidence intervals. The method is applied to the French cohort PAQUID to compare the abilities of two psychometric tests to predict dementia onset in the elderly accounting for death without dementia competing risk. The timeROC' R package is provided to make the methodology easily usable. Copyright (c) 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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