Optimal designs for full and partial likelihood information — With application to survival models

Konstantinou, Maria; Biedermann, Stefanie and Kimber, Alan C. (2015). Optimal designs for full and partial likelihood information — With application to survival models. Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 165 pp. 27–37.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jspi.2015.03.007

Abstract

Time-to-event data are often modelled through Cox’s proportional hazards model for which inference is based on the partial likelihood function. We derive a general expression for the asymptotic covariance matrix of Cox’s partial likelihood estimator for the covariate coefficients. Our approach is illustrated through an application to the special case of only one covariate, for which we construct minimum variance designs for different censoring mechanisms and both binary and interval design spaces. We compare these designs with the corresponding ones found using the full likelihood approach and demonstrate that the latter designs are highly efficient also for partial likelihood estimation.

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