Title
A new class of regression model for a bounded response with application in the study of the incidence rate of colorectal cancer
Date Issued
01 July 2020
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of São Paulo
Publisher(s)
SAGE Publications Ltd
Abstract
Response variables in medical sciences are often bounded, e.g. proportions, rates or fractions of incidence of some disease. In this work, we are interested to study if some characteristics of the population, e.g. sex and race which can explain the incidence rate of colorectal cancer cases. To accommodate such responses, we propose a new class of regression models for bounded response by considering a new distribution in the open unit interval which includes a new parameter to make a more flexible distribution. The proposal is to obtain compound power normal distribution as a base distribution with a quantile transformation of another family of distributions with the same support and then is to study some properties of the new family. In addition, the new family is extended to regression models as an alternative to the regression model with a unit interval response. We also present inferential procedures based on the Bayesian methodology, specifically a Metropolis–Hastings algorithm is used to obtain the Bayesian estimates of parameters. An application to real data to illustrate the use of the new family is considered.
Start page
2015
End page
2033
Volume
29
Issue
7
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Oncología
Matemáticas
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85074607445
PubMed ID
Source
Statistical Methods in Medical Research
ISSN of the container
09622802
DOI of the container
10.1177/0962280219881470
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