Simulating time-to-event data subject to competing risks and clustering: A review and synthesis

C Meng, D Esserman, F Li, Y Zhao… - … Methods in Medical …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Simulation studies play an important role in evaluating the performance of statistical models
developed for analyzing complex survival data such as those with competing risks and …

Design and analysis of cluster randomized trials with time‐to‐event outcomes under the additive hazards mixed model

O Blaha, D Esserman, F Li - Statistics in medicine, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A primary focus of current methods for cluster randomized trials (CRTs) has been for
continuous, binary, and count outcomes, with relatively less attention given to right …

Improving sandwich variance estimation for marginal Cox analysis of cluster randomized trials

X Wang, EL Turner, F Li - Biometrical Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cluster randomized trials (CRTs) frequently recruit a small number of clusters, therefore
necessitating the application of small‐sample corrections for valid inference. A recent …

Restricted mean survival time to estimate an intervention effect in a cluster randomized trial

FL Vilain–Abraham, E Tavernier… - … Methods in Medical …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
For time-to-event outcomes, the difference in restricted mean survival time is a measure of
the intervention effect, an alternative to the hazard ratio, corresponding to the expected …

Clustered restricted mean survival time regression

X Chen, MO Harhay, F Li - Biometrical Journal, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
For multicenter randomized trials or multilevel observational studies, the Cox regression
model has long been the primary approach to study the effects of covariates on time‐to …

Bayesian semi-parametric inference for clustered recurrent events with zero inflation and a terminal event

X Tian, M Ciarleglio, J Cai, EJ Greene… - Journal of the Royal …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Recurrent events are common in clinical studies and are often subject to terminal events. In
pragmatic trials, participants are often nested in clinics and can be susceptible or structurally …

[PDF][PDF] Package 'crrcbcv'

X Chen, F Li, MX Chen - 2022 - cran.uni-muenster.de
Description A user friendly function'crrcbcv'to compute bias-corrected variances for
competing risks regression models using proportional subdistribution hazards with small …