Nonparametric estimation of effect heterogeneityin rare events meta-analysis: bivariate, discrete mixture model
Nonparametric estimation of effect heterogeneityin rare events meta-analysis: bivariate, discrete mixture model
Meta-analysis provides an integrated analysis and summary of the effects observed in k independent studies. The conventional analysis proceeds by first calculating a study-specific effect estimate, and then provides further analysis on the basis of the available k independent effect estimates associated with their uncertainty measures. Here we consider a setting where counts of events are available from k independent studies for a treatment and a control group. We suggest to model this situation with a study-specific Poisson regression model, and allow the study-specific parameters of the Poisson model to arise from a nonparametric mixture model. This approach then allows the estimation of the heterogeneity variance of the effect measure of interest in a nonparametric manner. A case study is used to illustrate the methodology throughout the paper.
count data analysis, heterogeneity variance, meta-analysis, nonparametric mixture models, rare events
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Bohning, Dankmar
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Martin, Susan
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Sangnawakij, Patarawan
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Jansen, Katrin
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Böhning, Walailuck
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Holling, Heinz
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February 2021
Bohning, Dankmar
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Martin, Susan
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Sangnawakij, Patarawan
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Jansen, Katrin
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Böhning, Walailuck
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Holling, Heinz
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Bohning, Dankmar, Martin, Susan, Sangnawakij, Patarawan, Jansen, Katrin, Böhning, Walailuck and Holling, Heinz
(2021)
Nonparametric estimation of effect heterogeneityin rare events meta-analysis: bivariate, discrete mixture model.
Lobachevskii Journal of Mathematics, 42 (2), .
(doi:10.1134/S1995080221020074).
Abstract
Meta-analysis provides an integrated analysis and summary of the effects observed in k independent studies. The conventional analysis proceeds by first calculating a study-specific effect estimate, and then provides further analysis on the basis of the available k independent effect estimates associated with their uncertainty measures. Here we consider a setting where counts of events are available from k independent studies for a treatment and a control group. We suggest to model this situation with a study-specific Poisson regression model, and allow the study-specific parameters of the Poisson model to arise from a nonparametric mixture model. This approach then allows the estimation of the heterogeneity variance of the effect measure of interest in a nonparametric manner. A case study is used to illustrate the methodology throughout the paper.
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Accepted/In Press date: 1 August 2020
Published date: February 2021
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count data analysis, heterogeneity variance, meta-analysis, nonparametric mixture models, rare events
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ISSN: 1995-0802
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