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Biostatistics 2007 8(2):297-305; doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxl010
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A marginalized pattern-mixture model for longitudinal binary data when nonresponse depends on unobserved responses

Kenneth J. Wilkins

Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA

Garrett M. Fitzmaurice*

Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA and Division of General Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1620 Tremont Street, 3rd Floor, Boston, MA 02120-1613, USA fitzmaur{at}hsph.harvard.edu

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.

This paper proposes a method for modeling longitudinal binary data when nonresponse depends on unobserved responses. The proposed method presumes that the target of inference is the marginal distribution of the response at each occasion and its dependence on covariates, and can accommodate both monotone and non-monotone missingness. The approach involves a marginally specified pattern-mixture model that directly parameterizes both the marginal means at each occasion and the dependence of each response on indicators of nonresponse pattern. This formulation readily incorporates a variety of nonresponse processes assumed within a sensitivity analysis. Once identifying restrictions have been made, estimation of model parameters proceeds via solution to a set of modified generalized estimating equations. The proposed method provides an alternative to standard selection and pattern-mixture modeling frameworks, while featuring certain advantages of each. The paper concludes with application of the method to data from a contraceptive clinical trial with substantial dropout.

Keywords: Binary data; Dropout; Longitudinal method; Marginal regression; Missing data; Nonresponse

Received November 29, 2004; revised October 3, 2005; revised June 9, 2006; accepted for publication June 16, 2006.


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