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The prevalence of interval censored data is increasing in medical studies due to the growing use of biomarkers to define a disease progression endpoint. Interval censoring results from periodic monitoring of the progression status. For example, disease progression is established in the interval between the clinic visit where progression is recorded and the prior clinic visit where there was no evidence of disease progression. A methodology is proposed for estimation and inference on the regression coefficients in the Cox proportional hazards model with interval censored data. The methodology is based on estimating equations and uses an inverse probability weight to select event time pairs where the ordering is unambiguous. Simulations are performed to examine the finite sample properties of the estimate and a colon cancer data set is used to demonstrate its performance relative to the conventional partial likelihood estimate that ignores the interval censoring.
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Heller, G. Proportional hazards regression with interval censored data using an inverse probability weight. Lifetime Data Anal 17, 373–385 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10985-010-9191-8
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