Estimation of Vaccine Efficacy in the Presence of Waning: Application to Cholera Vaccines

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The authors present a nonparametric method for estimating vaccine efficacy as a smooth function of time from vaccine trials. Use of the method requires a minimum of assumptions. Estimation is based on the smoothed case hazard rate ratio comparing the vaccinated with the unvaccinated. The estimation procedure allows investigators to assess time-varying changes in vaccine-induced protection, such as those produced by waning and boosting. The authors use the method to reanalyze data from a vaccine trial of two cholera vaccines in rural Bangladesh. This analysis reveals the differential protection and waning effects for the vaccines as a function of biotype and age. Am J Epidemiol 1998; 147: 948–59.

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