Varying coefficient model with unknown within-subject covariance for analysis of tumor growth curves |
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Authors: | Krafty Robert T Gimotty Phyllis A Holtz David Coukos George Guo Wensheng |
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Affiliation: | Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA. |
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Abstract: | SUMMARY: In this article we develop a nonparametric estimation procedure for the varying coefficient model when the within-subject covariance is unknown. Extending the idea of iterative reweighted least squares to the functional setting, we iterate between estimating the coefficients conditional on the covariance and estimating the functional covariance conditional on the coefficients. Smoothing splines for correlated errors are used to estimate the functional coefficients with smoothing parameters selected via the generalized maximum likelihood. The covariance is nonparametrically estimated using a penalized estimator with smoothing parameters chosen via a Kullback-Leibler criterion. Empirical properties of the proposed method are demonstrated in simulations and the method is applied to the data collected from an ovarian tumor study in mice to analyze the effects of different chemotherapy treatments on the volumes of two classes of tumors. |
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Keywords: | Bayesian confidence intervals Functional linear models Smoothing spline Tumor growth curves Varying coefficient model |
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