Zhao Yue, Herring Amy H, Zhou Haibo, Ali Mirza W, Koch Gary G
a Duke Clinical Research Institute , Durham , North Carolina , USA.
J Biopharm Stat. 2014;24(2):229-53. doi: 10.1080/10543406.2013.860769.
This article presents a multiple imputation method for sensitivity analyses of time-to-event data with possibly informative censoring. The imputed time for censored values is drawn from the failure time distribution conditional on the time of follow-up discontinuation. A variety of specifications regarding the post-discontinuation tendency of having events can be incorporated in the imputation through a hazard ratio parameter for discontinuation versus continuation of follow-up. Multiple-imputed data sets are analyzed with the primary analysis method, and the results are then combined using the methods of Rubin. An illustrative example is provided.
本文提出了一种多重填补方法,用于对可能存在信息删失的事件发生时间数据进行敏感性分析。删失值的填补时间是根据随访终止时间从失效时间分布中抽取的。通过一个用于随访终止与继续的风险比参数,可以在填补过程中纳入关于事件发生的终止后趋势的各种设定。使用主要分析方法对多重填补数据集进行分析,然后使用鲁宾方法合并结果。文中给出了一个示例。