Interval censored time to event outcomes arise when a silent event of interest is known to have occurred within a specific time period, determined by the times of the last negative and first positive diagnostic tests. The four chapters comprising this thesis are tied together by a common theme in that the outcome of interest is an interval censored time to event random variable. In Chapter 1, we describe a stratified Weibull model appropriate for interval cen- sored outcomes and implement a new

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... R package straweib. We compare the proposed approach with the log-linear form of the Weibull regression model that is currently im- plemented in the existing R package survival, and illustrate its use by analyzing data from a longitudinal oral health study on the timing of the emergence of permanent teeth in 4430 children. In Chapter 2, we present methods to estimate the association of one or more covariates with an error-prone, self reported time to event outcome. We present simulation studies to assess the effect of error in self reported outcomes with regard to bias in the estimation of the regression parameter of interest. We apply the proposed methods to the data from Women's Health Initiative (WHI) to evaluate the effect of statin use with respect to incident diabetes risk. In Chapter 3, we develop tools to calculate power and sample size for studies in which data from sequentially administered, error-prone, laboratory-based diagnostic tests or self-reported questionnaires are collected to determine the occurrence of a silent event. We evaluate the effects of the characteristics of the imperfect diagnos- tic test on resulting power and sample size calculations. We compare the relative efficiency of various study designs in the context of error-prone outcomes. In Chapter 4, we propose a lasso and a Bayesian variable selection approach in the context of error-prone self reported outcomes to address the problem of vari- able selection in high dimensional data settings. We perform simulation studies to compare predic [...]