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Stat Methods Med Res ; 26(2): 542-566, 2017 04.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25296865

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In acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) studies it is quite common to observe viral load measurements collected irregularly over time. Moreover, these measurements can be subjected to some upper and/or lower detection limits depending on the quantification assays. A complication arises when these continuous repeated measures have a heavy-tailed behavior. For such data structures, we propose a robust structure for a censored linear model based on the multivariate Student's t-distribution. To compensate for the autocorrelation existing among irregularly observed measures, a damped exponential correlation structure is employed. An efficient expectation maximization type algorithm is developed for computing the maximum likelihood estimates, obtaining as a by-product the standard errors of the fixed effects and the log-likelihood function. The proposed algorithm uses closed-form expressions at the E-step that rely on formulas for the mean and variance of a truncated multivariate Student's t-distribution. The methodology is illustrated through an application to an Human Immunodeficiency Virus-AIDS (HIV-AIDS) study and several simulation studies.


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Linear Models , Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/virology , Algorithms , Biostatistics/methods , Computer Simulation , HIV-1 , Humans , Likelihood Functions , Limit of Detection , Longitudinal Studies , Multivariate Analysis , RNA, Viral/blood , Viral Load/statistics & numerical data
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