2025/08/21 by Shaun R. Seaman, Seaman, Shaun R
Decision Sciences · Mathematics · #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Methodology (stat.ME) #Psychometric Methodologies and Testing #Statistical Methods and Bayesian Inference #Statistical Methods and Inference
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2508.15145
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Seaman and Keogh (Biometrical Journal 2024) proposed a method for simulating data compatible with a marginal structural model (MSM) for the hazard of a survival time outcome. In this short report, I propose two extensions of this method. First, Seaman and Keogh favoured the use of a Gaussian copula, because this enables the function of the confounder history through which the hazard of failure depends on confounders to be interpreted as a risk score. Here, I describe how this interpretation can be preserved even when a non-Gaussian copula is used. Second, I extend Seaman and Keogh's method to allow simulation of data compatible with a MSM for a cause-specific or subdistribution hazard of failure in the presence of a competing event.