Objective: To assess the ability of propensity score methods to maintain covariate balance and minimize bias in the estimation of treatment effect in a time-to-event setting.
Data Sources: Generated simulation model
Study Design: Simulation study
Data Collection: 6 scenarios with varying covariate relationships to treatment and outcome with 2 different censoring prevalences
Principal Findings: As time lapses, balance achieved at baseline through propensity score methods between treated and untreated groups trends toward imbalance, particularly in settings with high rates of censoring. Furthermore, there is a high degree of variability in the performance of different propensity score models with respect to effect estimation.
Conclusions: Caution should be used when incorporating propensity score analysis methods in survival analyses. In these settings, if model over-parameterization is a concern, Cox regression stratified on propensity score matched pairs often provides more accurate conditional treatment effect estimates than those of unstratified matched or IPT weighted Cox regression models.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uiowa.edu/oai:ir.uiowa.edu:etd-6980 |
| Date | 01 January 2017 |
| Creators | Hinman, Jessica |
| Contributors | Carnahan, Ryan M. |
| Publisher | University of Iowa |
| Source Sets | University of Iowa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Theses and Dissertations |
| Rights | Copyright © 2017 Jessica Hinman |
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