Term of Award
Fall 2019
Degree Name
Doctor of Public Health (Dr.P.H.)
Document Type and Release Option
Dissertation (open access)
Copyright Statement / License for Reuse
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Department
Department of Biostatistics (COPH)
Committee Chair
Lili Yu
Committee Member 1
Hani Samawi
Committee Member 2
Xinyan Zhang
Abstract
Variable selection is one of the standard ways of selecting models in large scale datasets. It has applications in many fields of research study, especially in large multi-center clinical trials. One of the prominent methods in variable selection is the penalized likelihood, which is both consistent and efficient. However, the penalized selection is significantly challenging under the influence of random (frailty) covariates. It is even more complicated when there is involvement of censoring as it may not have a closed-form solution for the marginal log-likelihood. Therefore, we applied the penalized quasi-likelihood (PQL) approach that approximates the solution for such a likelihood. In addition, we introduce an adaptive penalty function that makes the selection on both fixed and frailty effects in a left-censored dataset for a parametric AFT frailty model. We also compared our penalty function with other established procedures via their performance on accurately choosing the significant coefficients and shrinking the non-significant coefficients to zero.
Recommended Citation
Pandeya, Sarbesh, "Variable Selection in Accelerated Failure Time (AFT) Frailty Models: An Application of Penalized Quasi-Likelihood" (2019). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2019.
Research Data and Supplementary Material
No
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