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And linear transformation models, many of which are embraced by the broad class of models for which Zeng and Lin (2007) HS-173MedChemExpress HS-173 develop maximum likelihood estimation procedures. Some more semiparametric models can be found in Vaupel and others (1979), Hsieh (1996), Chen and Wang (2000), Tsodikov (2002), Yang and Prentice (2005), and Chen and Cheng (2006). Many of these models induce a semiparametric class of models for the hazard ratio function that includes proportional hazards as a special case. Hazard ratio estimators under such semiparametric models can avoid the instability that may attend nonparametric hazard ratio function estimators. One of these, proposed by Yang and Prentice (2005), involves short-term and long-term hazard ratio parameters, and a hazard ratio function that depends also on the control group Thonzonium (bromide) solubility survivor function. Assume absolutely continuous failure times and label the 2 groups control and treatment, with hazard functions C (t) and T (t), respectively. Let h(t) = T (t)/C (t) be the hazard ratio function and SC (t) the survivor function of the control group. The model postulates that h(t) = e-2 + (e-1 1 , – e-2 )SC (t)xt < 0 ,(1.1)where 1 and 2 are scalar parameters and 0 = sup x: C (t)dt < . (1.2)This model includes the proportional hazards model and the proportional odds model as special cases. It has a monotone h(t) with a variety of patterns, including proportional hazards, no initial effect, disappearing effect, and crossing hazards, among others. Thus, the model presumably entails sufficient flexibility for many applications. It has also been studied for current status data in Tong and others (2007). In comparison, for many commonly used special cases of the accelerated failure time model either limt0 h(t) = 1 or limt0 h(t) 0, 1, and the hazard ratio stays above or below one when C is increasing. This is less flexible than desired. For the class of linear transformation models, with the logarithmic transformation, the hazard ratio also inherits some of these restrictions at many common baseline distributions. Similar properties hold as well for many other semiparametric models. Under model (1.1), estimation procedures to date have focused on the finite-dimensional parameters, as has mostly been the case also for estimation under other semiparametric models. Here, we extend the estimation to pointwise and simultaneous inference on the hazard ratio function itself. First, consistency and asymptotic normality of the estimate at a fixed time point are established. Then procedures for constructing pointwise confidence intervals and simultaneous confidence bands for the hazard ratio function are developed, and some modifications are implemented to improve moderate sample size performance.S. YANG AND R. L. P RENTICEFor additional display of the treatment effect, simultaneous confidence bands are also obtained for the average hazard ratio function over a time interval. The average hazard ratio gives a summary measure of treatment comparison and provides a picture of the cumulative treatment effect to augment display of the temporal pattern of the hazard ratio. These hazard ratio estimation procedures are applied to data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) estrogen plus progestin clinical trial (Writing Group For the Women's Health Initiative Investigators, 2002; Manson and others, 2003), which yielded a hazard ratio function for the primary coronary heart disease outcome that was decidedly nonproportional. Understan.And linear transformation models, many of which are embraced by the broad class of models for which Zeng and Lin (2007) develop maximum likelihood estimation procedures. Some more semiparametric models can be found in Vaupel and others (1979), Hsieh (1996), Chen and Wang (2000), Tsodikov (2002), Yang and Prentice (2005), and Chen and Cheng (2006). Many of these models induce a semiparametric class of models for the hazard ratio function that includes proportional hazards as a special case. Hazard ratio estimators under such semiparametric models can avoid the instability that may attend nonparametric hazard ratio function estimators. One of these, proposed by Yang and Prentice (2005), involves short-term and long-term hazard ratio parameters, and a hazard ratio function that depends also on the control group survivor function. Assume absolutely continuous failure times and label the 2 groups control and treatment, with hazard functions C (t) and T (t), respectively. Let h(t) = T (t)/C (t) be the hazard ratio function and SC (t) the survivor function of the control group. The model postulates that h(t) = e-2 + (e-1 1 , - e-2 )SC (t)xt < 0 ,(1.1)where 1 and 2 are scalar parameters and 0 = sup x: C (t)dt < . (1.2)This model includes the proportional hazards model and the proportional odds model as special cases. It has a monotone h(t) with a variety of patterns, including proportional hazards, no initial effect, disappearing effect, and crossing hazards, among others. Thus, the model presumably entails sufficient flexibility for many applications. It has also been studied for current status data in Tong and others (2007). In comparison, for many commonly used special cases of the accelerated failure time model either limt0 h(t) = 1 or limt0 h(t) 0, 1, and the hazard ratio stays above or below one when C is increasing. This is less flexible than desired. For the class of linear transformation models, with the logarithmic transformation, the hazard ratio also inherits some of these restrictions at many common baseline distributions. Similar properties hold as well for many other semiparametric models. Under model (1.1), estimation procedures to date have focused on the finite-dimensional parameters, as has mostly been the case also for estimation under other semiparametric models. Here, we extend the estimation to pointwise and simultaneous inference on the hazard ratio function itself. First, consistency and asymptotic normality of the estimate at a fixed time point are established. Then procedures for constructing pointwise confidence intervals and simultaneous confidence bands for the hazard ratio function are developed, and some modifications are implemented to improve moderate sample size performance.S. YANG AND R. L. P RENTICEFor additional display of the treatment effect, simultaneous confidence bands are also obtained for the average hazard ratio function over a time interval. The average hazard ratio gives a summary measure of treatment comparison and provides a picture of the cumulative treatment effect to augment display of the temporal pattern of the hazard ratio. These hazard ratio estimation procedures are applied to data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) estrogen plus progestin clinical trial (Writing Group For the Women's Health Initiative Investigators, 2002; Manson and others, 2003), which yielded a hazard ratio function for the primary coronary heart disease outcome that was decidedly nonproportional. Understan.