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. 2023 Oct 15;42(23):4057-4081.
doi: 10.1002/sim.9858. Epub 2023 Aug 1.

Clayton copula for survival data with dependent censoring: An application to a tuberculosis treatment adherence data

Silvana Schneider  1   2 , Rodrigo Citton P Dos Reis  1   3 , Maicon M F Gottselig  1 , Patrícia Fisch  3   4 , Daniela Riva Knauth  3 , Álvaro Vigo  1   3
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Clayton copula for survival data with dependent censoring: An application to a tuberculosis treatment adherence data

Silvana Schneider et al. Stat Med. .

Abstract

Ignoring the presence of dependent censoring in data analysis can lead to biased estimates, for example, not considering the effect of abandonment of the tuberculosis treatment may influence inferences about the cure probability. In order to assess the relationship between cure and abandonment outcomes, we propose a copula Bayesian approach. Therefore, the main objective of this work is to introduce a Bayesian survival regression model, capable of taking into account the dependent censoring in the adjustment. So, this proposed approach is based on Clayton's copula, to provide the relation between survival and dependent censoring times. In addition, the Weibull and the piecewise exponential marginal distributions are considered in order to fit the times. A simulation study is carried out to perform comparisons between different scenarios of dependence, different specifications of prior distributions, and comparisons with the maximum likelihood inference. Finally, we apply the proposed approach to a tuberculosis treatment adherence dataset of an HIV cohort from Alvorada-RS, Brazil. Results show that cure and abandonment outcomes are negatively correlated, that is, as long as the chance of abandoning the treatment increases, the chance of tuberculosis cure decreases.

Keywords: Bayesian inference; Weibull distribution; abandonment; informative censoring; piecewise exponential.

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