van Houwelingen / Putter Dynamic Prediction in Clinical Survival Analysis

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4398-3543-2
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 250 Seiten

Reihe: Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability

There is a huge amount of literature on statistical models for the prediction of survival after diagnosis of a wide range of diseases like cancer, cardiovascular disease, and chronic kidney disease. Current practice is to use prediction models based on the Cox proportional hazards model and to present those as static models for remaining lifetime after diagnosis or treatment. In contrast, Dynamic Prediction in Clinical Survival Analysis focuses on dynamic models for the remaining lifetime at later points in time, for instance using landmark models.

Designed to be useful to applied statisticians and clinical epidemiologists, each chapter in the book has a practical focus on the issues of working with real life data. Chapters conclude with additional material either on the interpretation of the models, alternative models, or theoretical background. The book consists of four parts:

- Part I deals with prognostic models for survival data using (clinical) information available at baseline, based on the Cox model

- Part II is about prognostic models for survival data using (clinical) information available at baseline, when the proportional hazards assumption of the Cox model is violated

- Part III is dedicated to the use of time-dependent information in dynamic prediction

- Part IV explores dynamic prediction models for survival data using genomic data

Dynamic Prediction in Clinical Survival Analysis summarizes cutting-edge research on the dynamic use of predictive models with traditional and new approaches. Aimed at applied statisticians who actively analyze clinical data in collaboration with clinicians, the analyses of the different data sets throughout the book demonstrate how predictive models can be obtained from proper data sets.

Zielgruppe

Researchers and graduate students in statistics, biostatistics, medical research, and epidemiology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

van Houwelingen, Hans

Putter, Hein

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Epidemiologie, Medizinische Statistik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Mathematik & Informatik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prognostic models for survival data using (clinical) information available at baseline, based on the Cox model
The special nature of survival data
Introduction
Basic statistical concepts
Predictive use of the survival function
Additional remarks
Cox regression model
The hazard function
The proportional hazards model
Fitting the Cox model
Example: Breast Cancer II
Extensions of the data structure
Alternative models
Additional remarks
Measuring the predictive value of a Cox model
Introduction
Visualizing the relation between predictor and survival
Measuring the discriminative ability
Measuring the prediction error
Dealing with overfitting
Cross-validated partial likelihood
Additional remarks
Calibration and revision of Cox models
Validation by calibration
Internal calibration
External calibration
Model revision
Additional remarks

Prognostic models for survival data using (clinical) information available at baseline, when the proportional hazards assumption of the Cox model is violated
Mechanisms explaining violation of the Cox model
The Cox model is just a model
Heterogeneity
Measurement error in covariates
Cause specific hazards and competing risks
Additional remarks
Non-proportional hazards models
Cox model with time-varying coefficients
Models inspired by the frailty concept
Enforcing parsimony through reduced rank models
Additional remarks
Dealing with non-proportional hazards
Robustness of the Cox model
Obtaining dynamic predictions by landmarking
Additional remarks

Dynamic prognostic models for survival data using time-dependent information
Dynamic predictions using biomarkers
Prediction in a dynamic setting
Landmark prediction model
Application
Additional remarks
Dynamic prediction in multi-state models
Multi-state models in clinical applications
Dynamic prediction in multi-state models
Application
Additional remarks
Dynamic prediction in chronic disease
General description
Exploration of the EORTC breast cancer data set
Dynamic prediction models for breast cancer
Dynamic assessment of "cure"
Additional remarks

Dynamic prognostic models for survival data using genomic data
Penalized Cox models
Introduction
Ridge and lasso
Application to Data Set 3
Adding clinical predictors
Additional remarks
Dynamic prediction based on genomic data
Testing the proportional hazards assumption
Landmark predictions
Additional remarks

Appendices
Data sets
Advanced ovarian cancer
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML)
Breast Cancer I (NKI)
Gastric Cancer
Breast Cancer II (EORTC)
Acute Lymphatic Leukemia (ALL)
B Software and website
R packages used
The dynpred package
Additional remarks

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Hans van Houwelingen received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics from the University of Utrecht in 1973. He stayed at the Mathematics Department in Utrecht until 1986. In that time his theoretical research interest was empirical Bayes methodology as developed by Herbert Robbins. His main contribution was the finding that empirical Bayes rules could be improved by monitonization.

On the practical side, he was involved in all kinds of collaborations with researchers in psychology, chemistry and medicine. The latter brought him to Leiden in 1986 where he was appointed chair and department head of Medical Statistics at the Leiden Medical School, which was transformed into the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in 1996.

Together with his Ph.D. students he developed several research lines in logistic regression, survival analysis, meta-analysis, statistical genetics and statistical bioinformatics. In the meantime, the department grew into the Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics, which also includes the chair and staff in Molecular Epidemiology.

Dr. van Houwelingen was editor-in-chief of Statistica Neerlandica and served on the editorial boards of Statistical Methods In Medical Research, Lifetime Data Analysis, Biometrics, Biostatistics, Biometrical Journal and Statistics and Probability Letters. He is elected member of ISI, fellow of ASA, honorary member of the Dutch Statistical Society (VVS) and ANed, the Dutch Region of the International Biometric Society (IBS).

Dr. van Houwelingen retired on January 1, 2009. On that occasion he was appointed Knight in the Order of the Dutch Lion.

Hein Putter received his Ph.D. in mathematical statistics from the University of Leiden in 1994, under the supervision of Willem van Zwet, on the topic of resampling methods. After post-doc positions in the Department of Mathematics of the University of Amsterdam and the Free University Amsterdam, and at the Statistical Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, he turned to medical statistics in 1998, working for the HIV Monitoring Fund and the International Antiviral Therapy Evaluation Center (IATEC), based at the Amsterdam Medical Center. In 2000, Dr. Putter was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics of the Leiden University Medical Center.

Dr. Putter’s research interests include: statistical genetics, dynamical models in HIV and survival analysis—in particular competing risks and multi-state models. Dr. Putter collaborates closely with the Department of Surgery and the Department of Oncology of the LUMC, and with international organizations like the European Organisation for the Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT). He serves as associate editor of Statistics and Probability Letters and Statistics in Medicine, and he was guest editor of special issues of Biometrical Journal and Journal of Statistical Software. He was one of the initiators of the IBS Channel Network.

In 2010, Dr. Putter was appointed full professor in the Department of Medical Statistics and Bioinformatics of the LUMC.