Meta‐analysis framework for exact inferences with application to the analysis of rare events

Meta‐analysis framework for exact inferences with application to the analysis of rare events
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用于精确推断的荟萃分析框架,应用于罕见事件的分析

DOI:
10.1111/biom.12497
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发表时间:
2016
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影响因子:
1.9
通讯作者:
Min‐ge Xie
Min‐ge Xie
中科院分区:
数学3区
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作者:
Guang Yang;Dungang Liu;Junyuan Wang;Min‐ge Xie

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The usefulness of meta‐analysis has been recognized in the evaluation of drug safety, as a single trial usually yields few adverse events and offers limited information. For rare events, conventional meta‐analysis methods may yield an invalid inference, as they often rely on large sample theories and require empirical corrections for zero events. These problems motivate research in developing exact methods, including Tian et al.'s method of combining confidence intervals (2009, Biostatistics, 10, 275–281) and Liu et al.'s method of combining p‐value functions (2014, JASA, 109, 1450–1465). This article shows that these two exact methods can be unified under the framework of combining confidence distributions (CDs). Furthermore, we show that the CD method generalizes Tian et al.'s method in several aspects. Given that the CD framework also subsumes the Mantel–Haenszel and Peto methods, we conclude that the CD method offers a general framework for meta‐analysis of rare events. We illustrate the CD framework using two real data sets collected for the safety analysis of diabetes drugs.
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