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Methods for Estimating Center Effects on Recurrent Events
Authors:Dandan Liu  John D. Kalbfleisch  Douglas E. Schaubel
Affiliation:1. Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, 1161 21st Avenue South, Nashville, TN, 37232, USA
2. Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-2029, USA
Abstract:In this article, we develop methods for quantifying center effects with respect to recurrent event data. In the models of interest, center effects are assumed to act multiplicatively on the recurrent event rate function. When the number of centers is large, traditional estimation methods that treat centers as categorical variables have many parameters and are sometimes not feasible to implement, especially with large numbers of distinct recurrent event times. We propose a new estimation method for center effects which avoids including indicator variables for centers. We then show that center effects can be consistently estimated by the center-specific ratio of observed to expected cumulative numbers of events. We also consider the case where the recurrent event sequence can be stopped permanently by a terminating event. Large-sample results are developed for the proposed estimators. We assess the finite-sample properties of the proposed estimators through simulation studies. The methods are then applied to national hospital admissions data for end stage renal disease patients.
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