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Analyzing Zero-Truncated Recurrent Events by Stratified Regression with Time-Varying Coefficients

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Pith's one-line read The paper claims that zero-truncated recurrent-event records, supplemented by census counts, suffice to estimate age-varying covariate effects on event intensity consistently.

desk verdict A useful extension of stratified Cox models to zero-truncated data, but the asymptotic proof is only a sketch and the plug-in details need work. read the letter →

arxiv 2507.23060 v1 pith:KSVUUFMA submitted 2025-07-30 stat.ME

Anqi A. Chen , X. Joan Hu , Rhonda J. Rosychuk , Leilei Zeng This is my paper · ORCID
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The pith

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The reading

This paper tackles a common data problem: electronic health records contain only people who had at least one event, so the population at risk—those who never went to the emergency department—is invisible. The authors claim that by splicing in aggregate census counts, the missing risk sets can be approximated well enough to estimate how covariate effects change with age in a stratified Cox-type intensity model. They construct a local-constant estimator for the time-varying regression coefficients, prove that it is pointwise consistent and asymptotically normal under regularity conditions, and verify the finite-sample behavior in simulations. The motivating application is pediatric mental-health emergency department visits in Alberta, where the fitted model also supports dynamic prediction of future visits based on a child's visit history.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing element is a system of kernel-weighted estimating equations for the local-constant approximation of $\beta_s(a)$. Equations (3) and (4) are built from the observed zero-truncated event counts, with the denominators—risk-set sums over the entire population—replaced by sums of census counts $\sum_l C(l,z,\lfloor u\rfloor)$ times model-based stratum probabilities. When the stratification is only partially known because the full event history is unavailable for subjects born before the study window, the indicator $Y_i^{(s)}(u)$ is replaced by its conditional probability $P(Y_i^{(s)}(u)=1 \mid Q_{1i})$ computed under the model; coefficients and cumulative baselines are then solved iteratively in Algorithm 1, and variances are estimated by Poisson-multiplier resampling.

What would settle it

Simulate recurrent events under Model (1) with a birth-cohort effect, for example $\lambda_{0s}(a)\exp\{\gamma B_i\}$, fit the proposed estimator while ignoring $B_i$, and check whether $\tilde{\beta}(a)$ drifts and whether the nominal 95% intervals cover the true functions as $\gamma$ grows; a systematic bias with coverage dropping would confirm that the birthdate-independence assumption is load-bearing. A data version is to split the MHED cohort by birth period and test whether the estimated coefficient curves differ across periods.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central claim is that for recurrent-event data observed only for subjects with at least one event, the age-specific effects of covariates on the event intensity can still be recovered if aggregate population census counts are used to approximate the unobserved risk sets. Under the stratified intensity model $\lambda(a \mid H_i(a), Z_i) = \lambda_{0s}(a)\exp\{\beta_s(a)'Z_i\}$, the proposed local-constant estimator $\tilde{\beta}(a)$ is pointwise consistent, $\tilde{\beta}(a) \to \beta_0(a)$ almost surely, and asymptotically normal with $\sqrt{nh}(\tilde{\beta}(a)-\beta_0(a)) \to N(0, \mathrm{AV}(\beta_0(a)))$ for each age in a chosen interior interval. The same estimating system also yields the cumulative baseline intensity functions, and the fitted model can predict the risk of a future event at any age given covariates and the observed history.

Load-bearing premise

The whole procedure assumes a subject's birth date is independent of their event process, and Section 6 acknowledges that different generations could have different event patterns; if birthdate and event intensity are correlated, the census-based denominators and estimating equations are biased and consistency collapses.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • Health administrators can estimate age-specific risk factors for first versus repeat emergency visits from administrative records alone, as long as population census tables with the same covariate levels are available.
  • The asymptotic normality result justifies pointwise confidence bands for the time-varying coefficients through Poisson-multiplier resampling, giving the reported uncertainties a theoretical grounding.
  • The stratified model nests the Andersen-Gill model, the Prentice-Williams-Peterson model, and earlier marginal analyses as special cases, so the new estimator generalizes those analyses to age-varying effects.
  • Given fitted coefficients and baselines, the model supports dynamic prediction of the probability of a future event at any age, conditional on a subject's observed history and covariates.
  • Simulation results indicate that when the true process has both baseline and coefficient stratification, only the proposed SSV model recovers the true stratum-specific coefficient and baseline functions, while simpler models blend the strata or deviate at later ages.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • An implicit consequence is that the method's accuracy is tied to how finely the census tables discretize age and covariates; yearly age bins make the risk-set denominators approximate, and monthly or daily population counts should reduce bias in $\tilde{\beta}(a)$ while narrowing the pointwise intervals.
  • The birthdate-independence assumption, flagged in Section 6 as fragile, could be tested inside the same framework by adding birth cohort as a stratum or covariate; if cohort effects are present, the census-based denominators would need a cohort-specific correction.
  • The same estimating-equation strategy should transfer to other zero-truncated administrative registries, such as hospital readmissions or justice-system contacts, wherever population tables exist; the key requirement is that census cells align with the covariates in the intensity model.
  • Because the partially known stratification is handled through conditional probabilities computed under the model, a sensitivity analysis for misspecified stratum-transition probabilities would be the most natural stress test of the procedure.
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Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a stratified Cox-type intensity model with time-varying regression coefficients for zero-truncated recurrent event data, where the population denominator is supplied by aggregate census information. The stratification variable depends on the event history but is only partially known because events before the observation window are unobserved; the authors replace the unknown stratum indicators by conditional probabilities computed under the model, and they estimate coefficients and cumulative baseline intensities by jointly solving local estimating equations. The main theoretical claim is Proposition 1, which asserts pointwise strong consistency and asymptotic normality of the time-varying coefficient estimator. The method is illustrated on pediatric mental health emergency department data and evaluated in a simulation study. The paper also proposes a Poisson-multiplier resampling procedure for variance estimation and an iterative algorithm for solving the estimating equations.

Significance. If the asymptotic result were rigorously established, the paper would provide a useful inferential framework for a practically important data structure: zero-truncated recurrent events with partly observed event histories and external population counts. The real-data application to MHED visits is relevant, and the modeling framework generalizes several existing recurrent-event models. The simulation study attempts to assess behavior under model misspecification as well as under the fitted model. The main weakness is that the theoretical foundation is incomplete as written: the proof of Proposition 1 rests on unproved lemmas and an unjustified functional Taylor expansion, and the conditional probability formula used in the estimating equations appears to require verification. These issues are load-bearing for the paper's central claim, so the manuscript needs a major revision.

major comments (4)
  1. [§3.2, Proposition 1 and Appendix A] The asymptotic result is not established as written. Appendix A states Lemmas 1 and 2 without proof, and the Taylor expansion of E_Fn(θ(·); a) about θ0(a) treats the plug-in quantities P(Y_i^(s)(u)=1|Q1i) and the census-based denominator as known smooth functions. In the actual procedure these quantities are recomputed at each iteration of Algorithm 1 and depend on the full coefficient and baseline functions through the formulas in Appendix B.2. Conditions (I)-(VII) contain no stochastic equicontinuity or smoothness condition for this plug-in map, and the remainder term o(θ̃ - θ0) is not justified when θ(·) is a functional parameter. The positive-definiteness of Π(θ0(·); a) in Lemma 1 is also asserted rather than proved. A complete proof with all lemmas and the required conditions is needed before the consistency and asymptotic normality claims can be accepted.
  2. [Appendix B.2] The displayed formula for P(N_i(C_Li)=0, N_i(a−)−N_i(C_Li)=0 | Q1i) appears to be independent of a, since the right-hand side involves ai1 and C_Li but not a, apart from the event that defines the 'otherwise' case. If the expression is correct, the conditional probability P(Y_i^(1)(a)=1|Q1i) would be constant for all a before the first observed event, which is not compatible with the model's intensity structure. This quantity is used directly in the estimating equation (6) and in Algorithm 1, so the derivation in Appendix B.2 needs to be checked carefully and either corrected or expanded.
  3. [§2 and §6] The assumption that the birthdate Bi is independent of the counting process Ni(·) is load-bearing for the censoring and truncation adjustment, and Section 6 itself notes that this may fail because different generations can have distinct event patterns. If Bi is correlated with the event process, the census-based denominators and the conditional probabilities in the estimating equations are no longer valid, and the consistency claim in Proposition 1 would not apply to the real-data setting. The authors should at least provide a concrete diagnostic or sensitivity analysis—for example, comparing estimates across birth cohorts or including a calendar-time covariate—to assess how sensitive the conclusions are to this assumption.
  4. [§5] The simulation study is reported almost entirely through plots. The text states that the true functions fall within the 95% pointwise confidence intervals 'for most of the time' and treats this as verification of consistency, but no numerical bias, Monte Carlo standard error, or pointwise coverage proportions are reported. With 1,000 simulation repetitions, coverage probabilities and average squared errors could be tabulated for representative ages. Without such summaries, the finite-sample evidence for the central claim is weaker than the text suggests.
minor comments (5)
  1. [Figure captions, §5.1] The captions for Figures 4–6 refer to 'Table (1)' instead of 'Table 1'.
  2. [§4] The phrase 'Models (1 or SSV)' in the description of the real-data results is ambiguous; it should be 'Model (SSV)' or 'Models (1)/(SSV)' as appropriate.
  3. [§3.2, Algorithm 1] The algorithm uses a tolerance τ* but the manuscript does not state what value of τ* was used in the simulations or data analysis; this is needed for reproducibility.
  4. [§4] The choice of bandwidth h=9 units and truncation points τL=9, τR=105 is described but no sensitivity analysis is provided; since the local estimation results can depend on these tuning parameters, a brief sensitivity check would be helpful.
  5. [General] No code or data availability statement is provided. Given that the method is implemented in C++ via Rcpp/RcppArmadillo, making the code available would substantially strengthen the reproducibility of the simulation and data analysis.

Circularity Check

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No circularity: the estimating equations define a self-consistency fixed point, census denominators are external, and the asymptotic proof gap is an incompleteness issue rather than a circular reduction.

full rationale

The paper's central claim, Proposition 1, is an asymptotic property of an estimator defined as the solution of estimating equations (6)-(7). The conditional probabilities P(Y_si(u)=1|Q1i) appearing in those equations are model-based quantities recomputed from current parameter values (Algorithm 1, Appendix B.2). This is standard self-consistency/EM-type fixed-point estimation, not circularity: the solution is not equal to an input by construction, and the equations are not tautologically satisfied for every parameter value. The census-based denominator in (3)-(5) and condition VII comes from external population counts, not from the fitted model. The proof outline in Appendix A does state Lemma 1 and Lemma 2 without proof and invokes a Taylor expansion with an unjustified remainder; this is a genuine proof gap and a correctness risk, as is the Section 6 admission that birthdate independence may fail. However, Lemma 2 is a CLT for the estimating function at the true parameter and Lemma 1 is a derivative/LLN-type condition; neither asserts the conclusion of Proposition 1 itself. The self-citations to Hu and Rosychuk (2016), Xiong et al. (2024), and Chen et al. (2025) are methodological lineage, not a load-bearing external theorem that forces the result. No step in the derivation reduces to its own inputs or renames a fitted quantity as a prediction, so the appropriate circularity finding is none.

Assumptions & free parameters 2 free parameters · 5 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The method rests on standard counting process assumptions plus several domain assumptions about the observation window, census information, and independence between birthdates and events. The bandwidth and truncation points are hand-chosen tuning parameters. No new physical or conceptual entities are introduced.

free parameters (2)
  • Bandwidth h = 9 units (1.5 years) in MHED analysis
    Smoothing bandwidth for local constant kernel estimation; chosen by hand, not estimated from data. Controls the neighbourhood of ages in the local estimating equations.
  • Truncation points tau_L, tau_R = tau_L = 1.5 years, tau_R = 17.5 years in MHED analysis
    Constants chosen to avoid boundary problems in local estimation; require P(C_L < tau_L) > 0 and P(C_R > tau_R) > 0. Not data-driven.
assumptions (5)
  • domain assumption Condition I: {Ni(.), Zi, Bi} are iid across subjects
    Assumed at the start of Section 3.1 and Condition I in Appendix A; needed for the law of large numbers and weak convergence.
  • domain assumption Condition VII: census-based estimate of P(Y^c(a)=1, Z=z) converges uniformly to the true probability
    The aggregate census counts C(l,z,floor(u)) must approximate the true population distribution at each age and covariate combination; central to the zero-truncation adjustment. If the census data are coarse or misaligned, the estimator is biased.
  • domain assumption Birthdate Bi independent of counting process Ni(.)
    Stated in Section 2; relied on for the validity of the zero-truncated estimating equations. The authors note in Section 6 this may not hold across generations.
  • domain assumption Covariates are discrete and finite-valued
    Stated in Section 3.1 ('We consider that all the covariates are discrete and take a finite number of values'); required to sum over Z using census counts.
  • domain assumption Stratification variable S_i(a) is a finite-valued, left-continuous, non-decreasing function of the history
    Defined in Section 2; the whole model and the stratum probability calculations rely on this structure.

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This paper presents a strategy for analyzing zero-truncated recurrent events data. Motivated by a pediatric mental health care (PMHC) program, we are particularly concerned with how the event occurrence depends on the occurrences in the past. We consider a stratified Cox regression model with time-varying coefficients and propose a procedure for estimating the model parameters using the zero-truncated data integrated with population census information. We evaluate the finite-sample performance of the proposed estimator through simulation and establish its asymptotic properties. Data from the PMHC program are used throughout the paper to motivate and to illustrate the proposed approach.

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Figure 1. Estimated regression coefficients for males with 95% pointwise [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Estimated regression coefficients for regions with 95% pointwise [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Estimated cumulative baseline intensity functions with 95% [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_3.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: Estimated coefficients to the indicator Z1 with 95% pointwise confidence intervals in Scenario 2 using a 7-year data extraction window based on 1, 000 simulation repetitions. Note: The models are shown in Table (1). Z3 under various models, with 95% pointwise confidenc…
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Estimated coefficients to the indicator Z2 with 95% pointwise confidence intervals in Scenario 2 using a 7-year data extraction window based on 1, 000 simulation repetitions. Note: The models are shown in Table (1). timates, and the green solid lines indicate the time-…
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Estimated coefficients to the indicator Z3 with 95% pointwise confidence intervals in Scenario 2 using a 7-year data extraction window based on 1, 000 simulation repetitions. Note: The models are shown in Table (1). coefficients align with the true function of stratum …
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Estimated coefficients to the indicator Z1 under Model (SSV) with 95% pointwise confidence intervals in Scenario 2 using an 18-year data extraction window based on 1, 000 simulation repetitions. Note: Model (SSV): λ(a | Hi(a), Zi) = λ0s(a) exp{βs(a) ′ Zi}; Model (SSC):…
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Figure 8. Figure 8: Estimated cumulative baseline intensity functions under Model () % [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p025_8.png]

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