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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
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
1995-0802
308-317
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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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), 308-317. (doi:10.1134/S1995080221020074).

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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
Additional Information: Publisher Copyright: © 2021, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.
Keywords: count data analysis, heterogeneity variance, meta-analysis, nonparametric mixture models, rare events

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Local EPrints ID: 448798
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/448798
ISSN: 1995-0802
PURE UUID: a8fd5e0f-4a3d-4afe-9124-997e1857fa90
ORCID for Dankmar Bohning: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-0638-7106
ORCID for Susan Martin: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-8746-0947

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Last modified: 06 Jun 2024 01:49

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Author: Dankmar Bohning ORCID iD
Author: Susan Martin ORCID iD
Author: Patarawan Sangnawakij
Author: Katrin Jansen
Author: Walailuck Böhning
Author: Heinz Holling

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