Statistical Methods in Medical Research

Article	Citations
Interval estimation in three-class receiver operating characteristic analysis: A fairly general approach based on the empirical likelihood	244
Exact interval estimation for the linear combination of binomial proportions	151
Confidence estimation based on data from independent studies	66
Implementing response-adaptive designs when responses are missing: Impute or ignore?	50
Analysis of hospital readmissions with competing risks	49
Joint meta-analysis of two diagnostic tests accounting for within and between studies dependence	42
Semiparametric copula method for semi-competing risks data subject to interval censoring and left truncation: Application to disability in elderly	40
Investigations of sharp bounds for causal effects under selection bias	37
Omnibus test for restricted mean survival time based on influence function	36
A new cure model accounting for longitudinal data and flexible patterns of hazard ratios over time	28
Covariate adjustment in Bayesian adaptive randomized controlled trials	27
A Bayesian beta-binomial piecewise growth mixture model for longitudinal overdispersed binomial data	25
Modeling and estimating a threshold effect: An application to improving cardiac surgery practices	24
Using shrinkage methods to estimate treatment effects in overlapping subgroups in randomized clinical trials with a time-to-event endpoint	23
Generalized Bayesian kernel machine regression	21
Bayesian feature selection in joint models with application to a cardiovascular disease cohort study	18
New clinical trial design borrowing information across patient subgroups based on fusion-penalized regression models	18
A family of Bayesian prognostic and predictive covariate-adjusted response-adaptive randomization designs	18
Generalised pairwise comparisons for trend: An extension to the win ratio and win odds for dose-response and prognostic variable analysis with arbitrary statements of outcome preference	17
Efficient design of partially nested randomized trials: A maximin approach	16
Random survival forests with multivariate longitudinal endogenous covariates	16
A capture-recapture modeling framework emphasizing expert opinion in disease surveillance	15
Multiplicative versus additive modelling of causal effects using instrumental variables for survival outcomes – a comparison	15
Analyzing heterogeneity in biomarker discriminative performance through partial time-dependent receiver operating characteristic curve modeling	14
Accounting for informative observation process in transition models of binary longitudinal outcome: Application to medical record data	14

On flexible inverse probability of treatment and intensity weighting: Informative censoring, variable selection, and weight trimming	14
A new information integration framework for complex models with applications to real-world data	13
Correlational analyses of biomarkers that are harmonized through a bridging study due to measurement errors	13
Covariate selection for optimizing balance with an innovative adaptive randomization approach	12
Simultaneous confidence intervals for an extended Koch-Röhmel design in three-arm non-inferiority trials	12
Linearized maximum rank correlation estimation of doubly truncated data	12
A unified approach based on multidimensional scaling for calibration estimation in survey sampling with qualitative auxiliary information	12
Penalized variable selection in multi-parameter regression survival modeling	12
A simple and robust parametric shared frailty model for recurrent events with the competing risk of death: An application to the Carvedilol Prospective Randomized Cumulative Survival trial	11
Smoothing Lexis diagrams using kernel functions: A contemporary approach	11
An iterative matrix uncertainty selector for high-dimensional generalized linear models with measurement errors	11
Evaluating prognostic biomarkers for survival outcomes subject to informative censoring	11
Bayesian order constrained adaptive design for phase II clinical trials evaluating subgroup-specific treatment effect	10
Modified Brier score for evaluating prediction accuracy for binary outcomes	10
Quantifying proportion of treatment effect by surrogate endpoint under heterogeneity	10
Quantile inference for multivariate response regression in joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data	10
A Bayesian genomic selection approach incorporating prior feature ordering and population structures with application to coronary artery disease	10
Familywise error rate control for block response-adaptive randomization	10
Quantification of the influence of risk factors with application to cardiovascular diseases in subjects with type 1 diabetes	10
Hazard-based distributional regression via ordinary differential equations	9
Adjusting for switches to multiple treatments: Should switches be handled separately or combined?	9
Competing risks models with two time scales	9
Model-based adaptive randomization procedures for heteroscedasticity of treatment responses	9
A generalization of moderated statistics to data adaptive semiparametric estimation in high-dimensional biology	9
The effect of estimating prevalences on the population-wise error rate	9
Empowering classification for multivariate functional data with simultaneous feature selection	9
Sample size calculation for multi-arm parallel design with restricted mean survival time	8
Change plane model averaging for subgroup identification	8
qTPI: A quasi-toxicity probability interval design for phase I trials with multiple-grade toxicities	8
Testing for marginal covariate effect when the subgroup size induced by the covariate is informative	8
More efficient estimators of the area under the receiver operating characteristic curve in paired ranked set sampling	8
Addressing nonignorable missing data and heterogeneity in prognostic biomarker assessment	8
The analysis of COVID-19 in-hospital mortality: A competing risk approach or a cure model?	8
A tight fit of the SIR dynamic epidemic model to daily cases of COVID-19 reported during the 2021–2022 Omicron surge in New York City: A novel approach	8
Adaptive sample size re-estimation designs for a two-stage randomized trial with binary outcome	8
Complete effect decomposition for an arbitrary number of multiple ordered mediators with time-varying confounders: A method for generalized causal multi-mediation analysis	8
Hunting for protective drugs at the break of a pandemic: Causal inference from hospital data	8
Review of sample size determination methods for the intraclass correlation coefficient in the one-way analysis of variance model	8
Statistical methods for clinical trials interrupted by the severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic: A review	7
Estimand-based inference in the presence of long-term survivors	7
Fixed and random effect selections in generalized linear mixed models	7
Improved survival analysis with shrinkage Kibria–Lukman estimators in the Cox model: Application to lung cancer data	7
Estimation and inference on the partial volume under the receiver operating characteristic surface	7
Discrimination performance in illness-death models with interval-censored disease data	7
Test sensitivity in a prospective cancer screening program: A critique of a common proxy measure	7
A practical review of response-adaptive randomization: Under-explored challenges and potential directions	7
BOIN-ETC: A Bayesian optimal interval design considering efficacy and toxicity to identify the optimal dose combinations	7
MISL: Multiple imputation by super learning	7
Cause-specific hazard Cox models with partly interval censoring – Penalized likelihood estimation using Gaussian quadrature	7
Using Bayesian evidence synthesis to quantify uncertainty in population trends in smoking behaviour	6

Time-dependent receiver operating characteristic curve estimator for correlated right-censored time-to-event data	6
Local linear approximation with Laplacian smoothing penalty and application in biology	6
Editorial	6
A Weibull mixture cure frailty model for high-dimensional covariates	6
Augmented two-stage estimation for treatment switching in oncology trials: Leveraging external data for improved precision	6
Estimation in discrete time coarsened multivariate longitudinal models	6
Improved and computationally stable estimation of relative risk regression with one binary exposure	6
Regression analysis of multivariate recurrent event data allowing time-varying dependence with application to stroke registry data	6
Handling missing data, skewness, and outliers in medical research: A robust factor analysis approach using the canonical fundamental skew-t distribution	6
A Bayesian latent class approach to causal inference with longitudinal data	6
Generalized fiducial inference for the restricted mean survival time	6
Penalized estimation of general frailty Poisson models for recurrent count events	6
A new framework for semi-Markovian parametric multi-state models with interval censoring	6
Multiple imputation approaches for epoch-level accelerometer data in trials	6
Using short-term endpoints to improve interim decision making and trial duration in two-stage phase II trials with nested binary endpoints	6
A generalized epidemiological model with dynamic and asymptomatic population	6
Combining multiple biomarkers linearly to minimize the Euclidean distance of the closest point on the receiver operating characteristic surface to the perfection corner in trichotomous settings	6
Group lasso priors for Bayesian accelerated failure time models with left-truncated and interval-censored data	6
Interval estimation for the Youden index of a continuous diagnostic test with verification biased data	6
Semiparametric generalized estimating equations for repeated measurements in cross-over designs	5
Factorial survival analysis for treatment effects under dependent censoring	5
LASSO-type instrumental variable selection methods with an application to Mendelian randomization	5
Distribution-free control charts for mixed-type data based on rank of interpoint distances	5
Heterogeneous treatment effect estimation for observational data using model-based forests	5
Using circulating tumor DNA as a novel biomarker of efficacy for dose-finding designs in oncology	5
Comparison of statistical methods for the analysis of patient-reported outcomes in randomised controlled trials: A simulation study	5
Use of clinical tolerance limits for assessing agreement	5
Sample sizes required to estimate the protective efficacy of a vaccine when there is an unequal allocation of individuals across the vaccine and placebo groups	5
MEGH: A parametric class of general hazard models for clustered survival data	5
Group sequential analysis of marked point processes: Plasma donation trials	5
An overview of optimal designs under a given budget in cluster randomized trials with a binary outcome	5
A hybrid prior Bayesian method for combining domestic real-world data and overseas data in global drug development	5
Adaptive enrichment trial designs using joint modelling of longitudinal and time-to-event data	5
Bivariate copula regression models for semi-competing risks	5
Bayesian analysis of joint quantile regression for multi-response longitudinal data with application to primary biliary cirrhosis sequential cohort study	5
Additive hazards model with time-varying coefficients and imaging predictors	5
Data-driven clustering of infectious disease incidence into age groups	5
Divided-and-combined omnibus test for genetic association analysis with high-dimensional data	5
The “Why” behind including “Y” in your imputation model	5
Health utility adjusted survival: A composite endpoint for clinical trial designs	5
Vaccine efficacy estimands and power considerations	4
Regularization approaches in clinical biostatistics: A review of methods and their applications	4
Strategies to boost statistical efficiency in randomized oncology trials with primary time-to-event endpoints	4
Biomarker-driven optimal designs for patient enrollment restriction	4
Optimising error rates in programmes of pilot and definitive trials using Bayesian statistical decision theory	4
Estimating dynamic treatment regimes for ordinal outcomes with household interference: Application in household smoking cessation	4
Diagnostic accuracy analysis for multiple raters using probit hierarchical model for ordinal ratings	4
Sample size determination for adaptive crossover trial in detecting gene-drug interactions	4
Efficient algorithms for survival data with multiple outcomes using the frailty model	4
Confidence intervals and point estimates for treatment effects in adaptive enrichment designs	4
Joint model with latent disease age: Overcoming the need for reference time	4
Unified approach to optimal estimation of mean and standard deviation from sample summaries	4
Causal rule ensemble method for estimating heterogeneous treatment effect with consideration of prognostic effects	4
Covariate hypothesis tests for the cure rate in mixture cure models based on martingale difference correlation	4
Assessing spillover effects: Handling missing outcomes in network-based studies	4
Jointly assessing multiple endpoints in pilot and feasibility studies	4
Using inverse probability of censoring weighting to estimate hypothetical estimands in clinical trials: Should we implement stabilisation, and if so how?	4
Graphical methods to illustrate the nature of the relation between a continuous variable and the outcome when using restricted cubic splines with a Cox proportional hazards model	4
Quantifying the effects of air pollution on respiratory ill health treated in primary care when the locations of the populations at risk are partially unknown	4
Methods for comparative effectiveness based on time to confirmed disability progression with irregular observations in multiple sclerosis	4
Joint estimation of multiple graphical models for an fMRI study of brain connectivity networks	4
Quantile outcome adaptive lasso: Covariate selection for inverse probability weighting estimator of quantile treatment effects	4
A Bayesian transformation model for informative partly interval-censored data with covariates subject to measurement error	4
Average treatment effect on the treated, under lack of positivity	4
Bivariate joint models for survival and change of cognitive function	4
Weighting methods for truncation by death in cluster-randomized trials	4
Measuring the individualization potential of treatment individualization rules: Application to rules built with a new parametric interaction model for parallel-group clinical trials	4
Model detection for semiparametric accelerated failure additive model with right-censored data	4
Simulating time-to-event data subject to competing risks and clustering: A review and synthesis	4
Restricted mean survival time in cluster randomized trials with a small number of clusters: Improving variance estimation of the intervention effect from the pseudo-values regression	4
Covariate-adjusted inference for doubly adaptive biased coin design	4
Extended excess hazard models for spatially dependent survival data	4
Comparisons of various estimates of the I2 statistic for quantifying between-study heterogeneity in meta-analysis	4
Isotonic design for single-arm biomarker stratified trials	3
Youden index estimation based on group-tested data	3
Using information criteria to select smoothing parameters when analyzing survival data with time-varying coefficient hazard models	3
A Bayesian hierarchical model for the analysis of visual analogue scaling tasks	3
Variable selection for mixed panel count data under the proportional mean model	3
Improving estimation efficiency of case-cohort studies with interval-censored failure time data	3
A jackknife approach to estimate the prediction uncertainty from binary classifiers under right-censoring	3

A natural history and copula-based joint model for regional and distant breast cancer metastasis	3
Adaptive aggregation for longitudinal quantile regression based on censored history process	3
Does it decay? Obtaining decaying correlation parameter values from previously analysed cluster randomised trials	3
Bayesian semiparametric joint modeling of a count outcome and inconveniently timed longitudinal predictors	3
A distribution-free smoothed combination method to improve discrimination accuracy in multi-category classification	3
Comparison of random forest methods for conditional average treatment effect estimation with a continuous treatment	3
Intervention treatment distributions that depend on the observed treatment process and model double robustness in causal survival analysis	3
A robust Bayesian dose optimization design with backfill and randomization for phase I/II clinical trials	3
An overview of propensity score matching methods for clustered data	3
Multicategory matched learning for estimating optimal individualized treatment rules in observational studies with application to a hepatocellular carcinoma study	3
An efficient approach for optimizing the cost-effective individualized treatment rule using conditional random forest	3
Uniformization and bounded Taylor series in Newton–Raphson method improves computational performance for a multistate transition model estimation and inference	3
On identification and estimation for sufficient cause interaction through a quasi-instrumental variable	3
Modified interactive Q-learning for attenuating the impact of model misspecification with treatment effect heterogeneity	3
Nonparametric Bayesian functional selection in 1-M matched case-crossover studies	3
On the estimation of population size—A comparison of capture-recapture and multiplier-benchmark methods	3
Multivariate contaminated normal linear mixed models applied to Alzheimer’s disease study with censored and missing data	3
Informative simultaneous confidence intervals for graphical test procedures	3
Semi-parametric testing for ordinal treatment effects in time-to-event data via dynamic Dirichlet process mixtures of the inverse-Gaussian distribution	3
Paired count regressions for modeling the number of doctor consultations and non-prescribed drugs intake	3
Cross-validation approaches for penalized Cox regression	3
Response adaptive randomisation in clinical trials: Current practice, gaps and future directions	3
Authors’ response	3
Variable selection using inverse probability of censoring weighting	3
Hierarchical Bayesian bivariate spatial modeling of small area proportions with application to health survey data	3
Wilcoxon rank-sum tests to detect one-sided mixture alternatives in group sequential clinical trials	3
Online control of the False Discovery Rate in group-sequential platform trials	3
Efficient estimation of the marginal mean of recurrent events in randomized controlled trials	3
Bayesian tensor logistic regression with applications to neuroimaging data analysis of Alzheimer’s disease	2
Estimation of global average treatment effect in National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Growth and Health Study	2
A note on response-adaptive randomization from a Bayesian prediction viewpoint	2
The performance of marginal structural models for estimating risk differences and relative risks using weighted univariate generalized linear models	2
Weight calibration in the joint modelling of medical cost and mortality	2
Sample size estimation for comparing dynamic treatment regimens in a SMART: A Monte Carlo-based approach and case study with longitudinal overdispersed count outcomes	2
Multiple imputation for non-monotone missing not at random data using the no self-censoring model	2
Logistic regression with correlated measurement error and misclassification in covariates	2
Modeling the effect of longitudinal markers on left-truncated time-to-event outcomes in twin studies	2
A statistical framework for planning and analysing test–retest studies of repeatability	2
Cluster analysis for longitudinal data and its application in the detection of adiposity trajectories	2
A model-based approach for historical borrowing, with an application to neovascular age-related macular degeneration	2
Proportion of treatment effect explained: An overview of interpretations	2
Multiple imputation for cause-specific Cox models: Assessing methods for estimation and prediction	2
Maintaining the validity of inference from linear mixed models in stepped-wedge cluster randomized trials under misspecified random-effects structures	2
Partly linear single-index cure models with a nonparametric incidence link function	2
Point estimation of the 100p percent lethal dose using a novel penalised likelihood approach	2
Permutation-based global rank test with adaptive weights for multiple primary endpoints	2
Multivariate control charts for monitoring a bivariate correlated count process with application to meningococcal disease	2
Dynamic prediction by landmarking with data from cohort subsampling designs	2
Instrumental variable analysis with categorical treatment	2
Joint modelling of longitudinal ordinal and multi-state data	2
Monitoring time to event in registry data using CUSUMs based on relative survival models	2
Two-stage Bayesian network meta-analysis of individualized treatment rules for multiple treatments with siloed data	2
Model-based approach for two-stage group sequential or adaptive designs in bioequivalence studies using parallel and crossover designs	2
Additive hazard causal model with a binary instrumental variable	2
Dirichlet process mixture models for regression discontinuity designs	2
Bayesian sample size determination using robust commensurate priors with interpretable discrepancy weights	2
Data-dependent early completion of dose-finding trials for drug-combination	2
Misclassification simulation extrapolation method for a Weibull accelerated failure time model	2
Partial areas under the curve of the cumulative distribution function as a new composite estimand for randomized clinical trials	2
An augmented likelihood approach for the Cox proportional hazards model with interval-censored auxiliary and validated outcome data—with application to the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Lat	2
Refined moderation analysis with binary outcomes in precision medicine research	2
The augmented synthetic control method in public health and biomedical research	2
A novel rare variants association test for binary traits in family-based designs via copulas	2
Revisiting sample size planning for receiver operating characteristic studies: A confidence interval approach with precision and assurance	2
Matching ratio and sample size for optimal sequential testing with binomial data	2
Outcome adaptive propensity score methods for handling censoring and high-dimensionality: Application to insurance claims	2
Determination of correlations in multivariate count data with informative observation times	2
Smoothed simulated pseudo-maximum likelihood estimation for nonlinear mixed effects models with censored responses	2
Estimation of the average treatment effect with variable selection and measurement error simultaneously addressed for potential confounders	2
Penalized estimation for varying coefficient additive hazards models	2
Saddlepoint approximation p-values of weighted log-rank tests based on censored clustered data under block Efron’s biased-coin design	2
On prior smoothing with discrete spatial data in the context of disease mapping	2
Dynamic prediction of interval-censored failure time data with longitudinal marker	2
Estimating an adjusted risk difference in a cluster randomized trial with individual-level analyses	2
Statistical assessment of biomarker replicability using MAJAR method	2
Cure models with adaptive activation for modeling cancer survival	2
Application of marginalized zero-inflated models when mediators have excess zeroes	2
Comparative study of Bayesian and frequentist methods for epidemic forecasting: Insights from simulated and historical data	2
A Bayesian likely responder approach for the analysis of randomized controlled trials	2
Unit information prior for incorporating real-world evidence into randomized controlled trials	2
Sensitivity analyses in longitudinal clinical trials via distributional imputation	2
A novel power prior approach for borrowing historical control data in clinical trials	2
Incorporation of missing indicator with multiple imputation in propensity score analysis with partially observed covariates: A simulation study	2
Joint regression analysis of clustered current status data with latent variables	2
Flexible modeling of multiple nonlinear longitudinal trajectories with censored and non-ignorable missing outcomes	2
Nonparametric Bayesian Q-learning for optimization of dynamic treatment regimes in the presence of partial compliance	2
Permutation tests for detecting treatment effect heterogeneity in cluster randomized trials	2
A matching-based machine learning approach to estimating optimal dynamic treatment regimes with time-to-event outcomes	2
A burn-in(g) question: How long should an initial equal randomization stage be before Bayesian response-adaptive randomization?	2
Predictive abilities comparison from multiple dynamic prediction models	2
Marginal semiparametric accelerated failure time cure model for clustered survival data	2
Survival analysis with a random change-point	2
Two-stage subsampling variable selection for sparse high-dimensional generalized linear models	2
Sensitivity bounds for bias in hazard ratios: A causal hazard perspective	2
Design of egocentric network-based studies to estimate causal effects under interference	2