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Longitudinal plasmode algorithms to evaluate statistical methods in realistic scenarios: an illustration applied to occupational epidemiology.
Souli, Youssra; Trudel, Xavier; Diop, Awa; Brisson, Chantal; Talbot, Denis.
Afiliação
  • Souli Y; Institute for Stochastics Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria.
  • Trudel X; Université Laval, Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Québec, Canada.
  • Diop A; Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Axe santé des populations et pratiques optimales en santé, Québec, Canada.
  • Brisson C; Université Laval, Département de médecine sociale et préventive, Québec, Canada.
  • Talbot D; Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval, Axe santé des populations et pratiques optimales en santé, Québec, Canada.
BMC Med Res Methodol ; 23(1): 242, 2023 10 18.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37853309
ABSTRACT

INTRODUCTION:

Plasmode simulations are a type of simulations that use real data to determine the synthetic data-generating equations. Such simulations thus allow evaluating statistical methods under realistic conditions. As far as we know, no plasmode algorithm has been proposed for simulating longitudinal data. In this paper, we propose a longitudinal plasmode framework to generate realistic data with both a time-varying exposure and time-varying covariates. This work was motivated by the objective of comparing different methods for estimating the causal effect of a cumulative exposure to psychosocial stressors at work over time.

METHODS:

We developed two longitudinal plasmode algorithms a parametric and a nonparametric algorithms. Data from the PROspective Québec (PROQ) Study on Work and Health were used as an input to generate data with the proposed plasmode algorithms. We evaluated the performance of multiple estimators of the parameters of marginal structural models (MSMs) inverse probability of treatment weighting, g-computation and targeted maximum likelihood estimation. These estimators were also compared to standard regression approaches with either adjustment for baseline covariates only or with adjustment for both baseline and time-varying covariates.

RESULTS:

Standard regression methods were susceptible to yield biased estimates with confidence intervals having coverage probability lower than their nominal level. The bias was much lower and coverage of confidence intervals was much closer to the nominal level when considering MSMs. Among MSM estimators, g-computation overall produced the best results relative to bias, root mean squared error and coverage of confidence intervals. No method produced unbiased estimates with adequate coverage for all parameters in the more realistic nonparametric plasmode simulation.

CONCLUSION:

The proposed longitudinal plasmode algorithms can be important methodological tools for evaluating and comparing analytical methods in realistic simulation scenarios. To facilitate the use of these algorithms, we provide R functions on GitHub. We also recommend using MSMs when estimating the effect of cumulative exposure to psychosocial stressors at work.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Algoritmos / Modelos Estatísticos Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: BMC Med Res Methodol Assunto da revista: MEDICINA Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Áustria

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Algoritmos / Modelos Estatísticos Limite: Humans Idioma: En Revista: BMC Med Res Methodol Assunto da revista: MEDICINA Ano de publicação: 2023 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Áustria