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An Index of Local Sensitivity to Nonignorability and a Penalized Pseudolikelihood Method for Data with Nonignorable Nonresponse

An Index of Local Sensitivity to Nonignorability and a Penalized Pseudolikelihood Method for Data with Nonignorable Nonresponse


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The public health significance of this study is to provide researchers and practioners more improved methods to analyze data with missing values as such data get prevalent in practice. When data are missing at random (MAR), the missing-data mechanism can be ignored. Otherwise, the mechanism needs to be modeled. Further sensitivity analyses are often necessary to evaluate the impact of alternative mechanism assumptions on the inferences. For data with nonignorable nonresponse, a pseudolikelihood method was developed, where specification of the mechanism is not necessary. A sensitivity analysis for this method and extensions to nonparametric and semi-parametric regression models were proposed in this thesis. An index of local sensitivity to nonignorability for the maximum likelihood method (ISNIML) for data with missing outcome values where the missing-data mechanism was modeled by a logistic regression was developed. It is used to evaluate how a small deviation from MAR affects the maximum likelihood estimate. A new index of local sensitivity to nonignorability (ISNIPL) was proposed for this pseudolikelihood method in this thesis. Compared with ISNIML, it has the advantage that functional specification of the missing-data mechanism is not required. Depending on whether or not the distribution of the covariate can be parametrically modeled, two versions of this ISNIPL were derived. Simulations suggested that ISNIPL is very close to ISNIML when the likelihood is correctly specified by the latter. But it does not require assumption on the function form of the missing-data mechanism. The analysis of a real dataset was used to highlight their differences and utility. In the second part, a penalized pseudolikelihood (PPL) method was developed for semi-parametric regression models with the following form: y = xbeta + g(t) + error, where g is an unspecified function and can be estimated by a natural cubic spline, for data with nonignorable nonresponse. Two cross-validation methods were considered to find the optimal smoothing parameter. Simulations suggested that PPL with the traditional cross-validation method yields less biased estimates of the parameter of interest and the nonparametric function. This PPL method was also illustrated in analysis of a clinical dataset.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781243550477
  • Publisher: Proquest, Umi Dissertation Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Proquest, Umi Dissertation Publishing
  • Height: 254 mm
  • Weight: 177 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1243550473
  • Publisher Date: 01 Sep 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Spine Width: 5 mm
  • Width: 203 mm


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