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Publication Date

8-1-2025

Journal

Statistics in Medicine

DOI

10.1002/sim.70240

PMID

40847763

PMCID

PMC12374258

PubMedCentral® Posted Date

8-23-2025

PubMedCentral® Full Text Version

Author MSS

Abstract

The integration of time-to-intermediate event data and the evolving characteristics of patients to enhance long-term prediction has garnered significant interest, driven by the wealth of data generated from longitudinal cohorts. In this paper, we propose sequential/dynamic prediction rules by using regression models with time-varying coefficients. We introduce a class of dynamic models that not only incorporates intermediate event information but also leverages information across different landmark times. To address the challenge of right-censoring, we employ an inverse weighting technique in the estimation process. We establish the asymptotic properties of the estimated parameters and conduct extensive simulations to assess the finite sample performance. Our simulation studies confirm that the proposed method exhibits computational efficiency and yields estimations comparable to those of kernel-based approaches. We apply the proposed method to real-world data from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study and predict mortality while incorporating information regarding a crucial intermediate event, the occurrence of a stroke, and other time-varying covariates dynamically.

Keywords

Humans, Computer Simulation, Models, Statistical, Stroke, Longitudinal Studies, Regression Analysis, Time Factors, Atherosclerosis, dynamic prediction, intermediate event, landmark time, long‐term prediction, time‐varying effect

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