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1. 일시 : 2018년 7월 4일(수), 오후 4시 30분-

2. 장소 : 통계학과 세미나실 (자연대연구실험동 222호)

3. 연사 : 송성호 교수 (University of Cincinnati, Department of Mathematical Sciences)

4. 연제 : Flexible link functions in a joint model of binary and longitudinal data

Abstract

  Joint models of binary primary endpoint and a longitudinal continuous process have been proposed when their association is of interest. The dependence between these two submodels can be characterized by introducing a common set of latent random effects. An important consideration that has been less investigated is to choose appropriate link functions for the binary primary endpoint in this joint model. We introduce two families of flexible link functions based on the generalized extreme value distribution and the symmetric power logit distribution. Our work is the first to investigate the importance of an appropriate and flexible link function in improving the estimation and prediction of a Bayesian joint model. Markov chain Monte Carlo is used for the posterior computation and inference. Flexibility and gains of the proposed joint model are demonstrated through detailed studies on simulated data sets and a real data example.

Keywords: Bayesian methods; binary data; longitudinal data; Markov chain Monte Carlo; simulation; statistical modelling