期刊
BIOMETRICS
卷 64, 期 1, 页码 29-38出版社
BLACKWELL PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00824.x
关键词
disease progression; dropouts; Gauss-Newton algorithm; lack-of-fit test; log-gamma distribution; predictive distribution
This article presents a new class of normormal linear mixed models that provide an efficient estimation of subject-specific disease progression in the analysis of longitudinal data from the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) trial. This new analysis addresses the previously reported finding that the distribution of the random effect characterizing disease progression is negatively skewed. We assume a log-gamma distribution for the random effects and provide the maximum likelihood inference for the proposed normormal linear mixed model. We derive the predictive distribution of patient-specific disease progression rates, which demonstrates rather different individual progression profiles from those obtained from the normal linear mixed model analysis. To validate the adequacy of the log-gamma assumption versus the usual normality assumption for the random effects, we propose a lack-of-fit test that clearly indicates a better fit for the log-gamma modeling in the analysis of the MDRD, data. The full maximum likelihood inference is also advantageous in dealing with the missing at random (MAR) type of dropouts encountered in the MDRD data.
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