A novel approach to estimate the Cox model with temporal covariates and its application to medical cost data

02/02/2018
by   Xiaoqi Zhang, et al.
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We propose a novel approach to estimate the Cox model with temporal covariates. Our new approach treats the temporal covariates as arising from a longitudinal process which is modeled jointly with the event time. Different from the literature, the longitudinal process in our model is specified as a bounded variational process and determined by a family of Initial Value Problems associated with an Ordinary Differential Equation. Our specification has the advantage that only the observation of the temporal covariates at the time to event and the time to event itself are required to fit the model, while it is fine but not necessary to have more longitudinal observations. This fact makes our approach very useful for many medical outcome datasets, like the New York State Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System and the National Inpatient Sample, where it is important to find the hazard rate of being discharged given the accumulative cost but only the total cost at the discharge time is available due to the protection of patient information. Our estimation procedure is based on maximizing the full information likelihood function. The resulting estimators are shown to be consistent and asymptotically normally distributed. Variable selection techniques, like Adaptive LASSO, can be easily modified and incorporated into our estimation procedure. The oracle property is verified for the resulting estimator of the regression coefficients. Simulations and a real example illustrate the practical utility of the proposed model. Finally, a couple of potential extensions of our approach are discussed.

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