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ArticleJournal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical methodology2023

Elastic integrative analysis of randomised trial and real-world data for treatment heterogeneity estimation.

Shu Yang, Chenyin Gao, Donglin Zeng, Xiaofei Wang

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Article in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B, Statistical methodology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

28 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Pooled it
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Shu YangDepartment of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7703-707X
Chenyin GaoDepartment of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3850-5587
Donglin ZengDepartment of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
Xiaofei WangDepartment of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA.

Funding

Statistical and Machine Learning Methods to Improve Dynamic Treatment Regimens Estimation Using Real World Data.R01GM124104 · NIGMS · UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL · PI Yuanjia Wang, Donglin Zeng · 2018 to 2026
$3.1M
Transforming Clinical Trials for Elderly and Rare Cancers through Intelligent and Robust Information BorrowingR01AG066883 · NIA · NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH · PI Xiaofei Wang, Shu Yang · 2020 to 2026
$2.0M
Spatial Causal Inference for Wildland Fire Smoke Effects on Air Pollution and HealthR01ES031651 · NIEHS · NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH · PI REICH, BRIAN J., YANG, SHU · 2020 to 2024
$1.2M
FDA HHS U01 FD007934NIA NIH HHS R01 AG066883NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES031651NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM124104
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We propose a test-based elastic integrative analysis of the randomised trial and real-world data to estimate treatment effect heterogeneity with a vector of known effect modifiers. When the real-world data are not subject to bias, our approach combines the trial and real-world data for efficient estimation. Utilising the trial design, we construct a test to decide whether or not to use real-world data. We characterise the asymptotic distribution of the test-based estimator under local alternatives. We provide a data-adaptive procedure to select the test threshold that promises the smallest mean square error and an elastic confidence interval with a good finite-sample coverage property.

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counterfactual outcomeleast favourable confidence intervalnon-regularityprecision medicinepre-test estimatorsemiparametric efficiency

Identifiers

PMID37521165
PMCPMC10376438

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