Bayesian Federated Inference for Survival Models

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Autori principali: Pazira, Hassan, Massa, Emanuele, Weijers, Jetty AM, Coolen, Anthony CC, Jonker, Marianne A
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author Pazira, Hassan
Massa, Emanuele
Weijers, Jetty AM
Coolen, Anthony CC
Jonker, Marianne A
author_facet Pazira, Hassan
Massa, Emanuele
Weijers, Jetty AM
Coolen, Anthony CC
Jonker, Marianne A
contents In cancer research, overall survival and progression free survival are often analyzed with the Cox model. To estimate accurately the parameters in the model, sufficient data and, more importantly, sufficient events need to be observed. In practice, this is often a problem. Merging data sets from different medical centers may help, but this is not always possible due to strict privacy legislation and logistic difficulties. Recently, the Bayesian Federated Inference (BFI) strategy for generalized linear models was proposed. With this strategy the statistical analyses are performed in the local centers where the data were collected (or stored) and only the inference results are combined to a single estimated model; merging data is not necessary. The BFI methodology aims to compute from the separate inference results in the local centers what would have been obtained if the analysis had been based on the merged data sets. In this paper we generalize the BFI methodology as initially developed for generalized linear models to survival models. Simulation studies and real data analyses show excellent performance; i.e., the results obtained with the BFI methodology are very similar to the results obtained by analyzing the merged data. An R package for doing the analyses is available.
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spellingShingle Bayesian Federated Inference for Survival Models
Pazira, Hassan
Massa, Emanuele
Weijers, Jetty AM
Coolen, Anthony CC
Jonker, Marianne A
Methodology
Computation
Machine Learning
In cancer research, overall survival and progression free survival are often analyzed with the Cox model. To estimate accurately the parameters in the model, sufficient data and, more importantly, sufficient events need to be observed. In practice, this is often a problem. Merging data sets from different medical centers may help, but this is not always possible due to strict privacy legislation and logistic difficulties. Recently, the Bayesian Federated Inference (BFI) strategy for generalized linear models was proposed. With this strategy the statistical analyses are performed in the local centers where the data were collected (or stored) and only the inference results are combined to a single estimated model; merging data is not necessary. The BFI methodology aims to compute from the separate inference results in the local centers what would have been obtained if the analysis had been based on the merged data sets. In this paper we generalize the BFI methodology as initially developed for generalized linear models to survival models. Simulation studies and real data analyses show excellent performance; i.e., the results obtained with the BFI methodology are very similar to the results obtained by analyzing the merged data. An R package for doing the analyses is available.
title Bayesian Federated Inference for Survival Models
topic Methodology
Computation
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17464