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Dynamic Modelling of Multivariate Dimensions and Their Temporal Relationships using Latent Processes: Application to Alzheimer's Disease (1806.03659v4)

Published 10 Jun 2018 in stat.AP

Abstract: Alzheimer's disease gradually affects several components including the cerebral dimension with brain atrophies, the cognitive dimension with a decline in various functions and the functional dimension with impairment in the daily living activities. Understanding how such dimensions interconnect is crucial for AD research. However it requires to simultaneously capture the dynamic and multidimensional aspects, and to explore temporal relationships between dimensions. We propose an original dynamic structural model that accounts for all these features. The model defines dimensions as latent processes and combines a multivariate linear mixed model and a system of difference equations to model trajectories and temporal relationships between latent processes in finely discrete time. Dimensions are simultaneously related to their observed (possibly multivariate) markers through nonlinear equations of observation. Parameters are estimated in the maximum likelihood framework enjoying a closed form for the likelihood. We demonstrate in a simulation study that this dynamic model in discrete time benefits the same causal interpretation of temporal relationships as models defined in continuous time as long as the discretization step remains small. The model is then applied to the data of the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative. Three longitudinal dimensions (cerebral anatomy, cognitive ability and functional autonomy) measured by 6 markers are analyzed and their temporal structure is contrasted between different clinical stages of Alzheimer's disease. Keywords: causality, difference equations, latent process, longitudinal data, mixed models, multivariate data.

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