A D-vine copula mixed model for joint meta-analysis and comparison of diagnostic tests

Nikoloulopoulos, Aristidis K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0853-0084 (2019) A D-vine copula mixed model for joint meta-analysis and comparison of diagnostic tests. Statistical Methods in Medical Research, 28 (10-11). pp. 3286-3300. ISSN 0962-2802

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Abstract

For a particular disease, there may be two diagnostic tests developed, where each of the tests is subject to several studies. A quadrivariate generalised linear mixed model (GLMM) has been recently proposed to joint meta-analyse and compare two diagnostic tests. We propose a D-vine copula mixed model for joint meta-analysis and comparison of two diagnostic tests. Our general model includes the quadrivariate GLMM as a special case and can also operate on the original scale of sensitivities and specificities. The method allows the direct calculation of sensitivity and specificity for each test, as well as the parameters of the summary receiver operator characteristic (SROC) curve, along with a comparison between the SROCs of each test. Our methodology is demonstrated with an extensive simulation study and illustrated by meta-analysing two examples where two tests for the diagnosis of a particular disease are compared. Our study suggests that there can be an improvement on GLMM in fit to data since our model can also provide tail dependencies and asymmetries.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: copula mixed model,generalized linear mixed model,specificity,sroc,vines
Faculty \ School: Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences
UEA Research Groups: Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Data Science and Statistics
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Depositing User: Pure Connector
Date Deposited: 05 Jun 2018 14:30
Last Modified: 05 Dec 2023 02:08
URI: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/67306
DOI: 10.1177/0962280218796685

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