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Department of Audiology Faculty Articles
Title
Predicting Hearing Threshold in Nonresponsive Subjects Using a Log-Normal Bayesian Linear Model in the Presence of Left-Censored Covariates
ResearchID/ORCID ID
0000-0001-7589-8247, 0000-0001-6770-4377
ISBN or ISSN
1946-6315
Volume
2009
Issue
2
Publication Date / Copyright Date
1-2012
First Page
137
Last Page
148
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
DOI Number
10.1198/sbr.2009.0015
Abstract
We provide a nontrivial example illustrating analysis of a Bayesian clinical trial. Many of the issues discussed in the article are emphasized in a recent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) guidance on use of Bayesian statistics in medical device clinical trials. Here we present a fully Bayesian data analysis for predicting hearing thresholds in subjects who cannot respond to usual hearing tests. The article begins with simple concepts such as simple linear regression and proceeds into more complex issues such as censoring in the dependent and independent variables. Throughout, we emphasize the substantive interpretation of the analysis. Of particular interest is interval estimation, predictive probability for outcomes in future patients, missing data, model checking, and the assessment of frequentist properties of the Bayesian method.
Disciplines
Communication Sciences and Disorders | Medicine and Health Sciences | Speech and Hearing Science | Speech Pathology and Audiology
Keywords
data augmentation, left-censored data, Gibbs sampler, prediction, simple regression, WinBUGS
NSUWorks Citation
Gajewski, Byron J.; Nicholson, Nannette; and Widen, Judith E., "Predicting Hearing Threshold in Nonresponsive Subjects Using a Log-Normal Bayesian Linear Model in the Presence of Left-Censored Covariates" (2012). Department of Audiology Faculty Articles. 68.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/hpd_aud_facarticles/68
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