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Statistical analysis of recurrent gap time events with incomplete observation gaps

불완전한 관측틈을 가진 재발 사건 소요시간에 대한 자료 분석

  • Shin, Seul Bi (Health Insurance Policy Research Institute, National Health Insurance Corporation) ;
  • Kim, Yang Jin (Department of Statistics, Sookmyung Women's University)
  • 신슬비 (국민건강보험공단 건강보험정책연구원) ;
  • 김양진 (숙명여자대학교 통계학과)
  • Received : 2013.12.30
  • Accepted : 2014.02.20
  • Published : 2014.03.31
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Abstract

Recurrent event data occurs when a subject experiences same type of event repeatedly and is found in various areas such as the social sciences, Economics, medicine and public health. To analyze recurrent event data either a total time or a gap time is adopted according to research interest. In this paper, we analyze recurrent event data with incomplete observation gap using a gap time scale. That is, some subjects leave temporarily from a study and return after a while. But it is not available when the observation gaps terminate. We adopt an interval censoring mechanism for estimating the termination time. Furthermore, to model the association among gap times of a subject, a frailty effect is incorporated into a model. Programs included in Survival package of R program are implemented to estimate the covariate effect as well as the variance of frailty effect. YTOP (Young Traffic Offenders Program) data is analyzed with both proportional hazard model and a weibull regression model.

재발 사건 자료란 연구대상이 같은 종류의 사건을 반복적으로 경험할 때 발생하는 자료이다. 이러한 재발 사건은 사회과학, 자연과학, 공학, 의약학 등 다양한 분야에서 나타날 수 있다. 재발 사건자료를 분석할 때 연구자의 관심에 따라 사건 발생시간이나 사건 발생간의 소요시간을 이용하여 분석할 수 있다. 이 논문에서는 사건 발생시점간의 소요시간을 이용하여 불완전한 관측을 가진 재발 사건자료를 분석하고자 한다. 이 자료의 특징은 일부 관측대상들이 일정기간 동안 연구에서 제외되는 관측틈을 갖는다는 것이다. 이 때 관측틈은 불완전한 형태로 나타나게 되는데 그 이유는 관측틈의 시작시점은 알고 있지만 종료시점은 알 수 없기 때문이다. 이러한 미지의 종료시점을 추정하기 위해서 구간 중도 절단 방법이 적용된다. 따라서 종료시점이 추정된 후 프레일티를 포함한 회귀모형을 적용하여 공변량이 사건 재발에 미치는 영향을 알아볼 수 있다. 또한 제안한 방법을 실제자료에 적용하여 관측틈을 고려한 경우와 고려하지 않은 경우를 비교하고자 한다.

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