Journal
BIOMETRICS
Volume 69, Issue 1, Pages 52-61Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2012.01818.x
Keywords
All-or-none noncompliance; BuckleyJames estimator; Clinical trials; Competing risks; EM algorithm; Nonproportional hazards model; Treatment efficacy
Funding
- NIH [CA016042, P01AT003960]
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This article studies a semiparametric accelerated failure time mixture model for estimation of a biological treatment effect on a latent subgroup of interest with a time-to-event outcome in randomized clinical trials. Latency is induced because membership is observable in one arm of the trial and unidentified in the other. This method is useful in randomized clinical trials with all-or-none noncompliance when patients in the control arm have no access to active treatment and in, for example, oncology trials when a biopsy used to identify the latent subgroup is performed only on subjects randomized to active treatment. We derive a computational method to estimate model parameters by iterating between an expectation step and a weighted BuckleyJames optimization step. The bootstrap method is used for variance estimation, and the performance of our method is corroborated in simulation. We illustrate our method through an analysis of a multicenter selective lymphadenectomy trial for melanoma.
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