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Analyzing left‐truncated and right‐censored infectious disease cohort data with interval‐censored infection onset
Authors:Daewoo Pak,Jun Liu,Jing Ning,Guadalupe G  mez,Yu Shen
Affiliation:Daewoo Pak,Jun Liu,Jing Ning,Guadalupe Gómez,Yu Shen
Abstract:In an infectious disease cohort study, individuals who have been infected with a pathogen are often recruited for follow up. The period between infection and the onset of symptomatic disease, referred to as the incubation period, is of interest because of its importance on disease surveillance and control. However, the incubation period is often difficult to ascertain due to the uncertainty associated with asymptomatic infection onset time. An additional complication is that the observed infected subjects are likely to have longer incubation periods due to the prevalent sampling. In this article, we demonstrate how to estimate the distribution of the incubation period with the uncertain infection onset, subject to left‐truncation and right‐censoring. We employ a family of sufficiently general parametric models, the generalized odds‐rate class of regression models, for the underlying incubation period and its correlation with covariates. In simulation studies, we assess the finite sample performance of the model fitting and hazard function estimation. The proposed method is illustrated on data from the HIV/AIDS study on injection drug users admitted to a detoxification program in Badalona, Spain.
Keywords:generalized odd rate class of models  incubation period of an infectious disease  interval censoring  left truncation  uncertain initiating event
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