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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Nov 21.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2007 Jun 30;26(14):2813–2835. doi: 10.1002/sim.2749

Table II.

Comparison of the joint model versus the separate analysis for %FVC measurements alone using 6–12 month SLS data.

Joint analysis Separate analysis


Estimate (SE) p-value Estimate (SE) p-value
Longitudinal outcome %FVC
Baseline %FVC (β1) 0.96 (0.02) <0.0001 0.96 (0.04) <0.0001
Fibrosis (β2) −1.66 (0.50) 0.001 −1.69 (0.85) 0.05
CYC group (β3) −2.26 (1.50) 0.13 −2.51 (2.43) 0.30
CYC × Fibrosis (β4) 1.79 (0.66) 0.006 1.83 (1.11) 0.10
Effect of CYC (H0 : β3 = β4 =0)* 0.001 0.13
Cause-specific probability (treatment failure or death)
Baseline %FVC (α1) −0.10 (0.14) 0.49 −0.03 (0.13) 0.83
Fibrosis (α2) −0.45 (1.47) 0.76 0.30 (1.39) 0.83
CYC group (α3) 0.91 (6.71) 0.89 −0.86 (7.56) 0.91
CYC × Fibrosis (α4) 0.01 (2.82) 1.00 0.32 (3.30) 0.92
Effect of CYC (H0 : α3 = α4 = 0)* 0.93 0.99
Conditional cause-specific hazards (time to treatment failure or death)
Baseline %FVC (γ11) 0.01 (0.06) 0.85 0.04 (0.26) 0.87
Fibrosis (γ12) 0.001 (0.88) 1.00 −0.46 (2.88) 0.87
CYC group (γ13) −0.34 (3.30) 0.92 2.72 (9.09) 0.76
CYC × Fibrosis γ14) −0.28 (1.52) 0.85 −1.49 (3.68) 0.68
Effect of CYC (H0 : γ13 = γ14 = 0)* 0.64 0.86
Conditional cause-specific hazards (time to disease-related dropout)
Baseline %FVC (γ21) −0.05 (0.05) 0.25 −0.01 (0.05) 0.76
Fibrosis (γ22) 0.24 (0.75) 0.75 0.45 (0.58) 0.44
CYC group (γ23) 1.61 (3.03) 0.60 1.06 (1.46) 0.47
CYC × Fibrosis (γ24) −0.41 (1.27) 0.75 −0.36 (0.62) 0.56
Effect of CYC (H0 : γ23 = γ24 = 0)* 0.75 0.75
*

The p-values are based on Wald test with 2 degrees of freedom.