2 papers
stat.ME2017
Semiparametric Sieve Maximum Likelihood Estimation Under Cure Model with Partly Interval Censored and Left Truncated Data for Application to Spontaneous Abortion Data
Yuan Wu, Christina D. Chambers, Ronghui Xu
This work was motivated by observational studies in pregnancy with spontaneous abortion (SAB) as outcome. Clearly some women experience the SAB event but the rest do not. In additi…
stat.AP2017
The Impact of Confounder Selection in Propensity Scores for Rare Events Data - with Applications to Birth Defects
Ronghui Xu, Jue Hou, Christina D. Chambers
Our work was motivated by a recent study on birth defects of infants born to pregnant women exposed to a certain medication for treating chronic diseases. Outcomes such as birth de…