Regression Analysis of Doubly censored data using Gibbs Sampler for the Incubation period

  • Yoo Hanna (Graduate Student, Department of Statistics, Korea University) ;
  • Lee Jae Won (Department of Statistics, Korea University)
  • Published : 2004.11.01

Abstract

In standard time-to-event or survival analysis, the occurrence times of the event of interest are observed exactly or are right-censored. However in certain situations such as the AIDS data, the incubation period which is the time between HIV infection time and the diagnosis of AIDS is usually doubly censored. That is the HIV infection time Is interval censored and also the time of the diagnosis of AIDS is right censored. In this paper, we Impute the Interval censored infection time using the conditional mean imputation and estimate the coefficient factor of the regression analysis for the incubation period using Gibbs sampler. We applied parametric and semi-parametric methods for the analysis of the Incubation period and compared the results.

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