Measurement Error Correction for Spatially Defined Environmental Exposures in Survival Analysis

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Autori principali: Ge, Lin, Yang, Ce, Zucker, David, Li, Jiaxuan, Spiegelman, Donna, Wang, Molin
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Ge, Lin
Yang, Ce
Zucker, David
Li, Jiaxuan
Spiegelman, Donna
Wang, Molin
author_facet Ge, Lin
Yang, Ce
Zucker, David
Li, Jiaxuan
Spiegelman, Donna
Wang, Molin
contents Environmental exposures are often defined using buffer zones around geocoded home addresses, but these static boundaries can miss dynamic daily activity patterns, leading to biased results. This paper presents a novel measurement error correction method for spatially defined environmental exposures within a survival analysis framework using the Cox proportional hazards model. The method corrects high-dimensional surrogate exposures from geocoded residential data at multiple buffer radii by applying principal component analysis for dimension reduction and leveraging external GPS-tracked validation datasets containing true exposure measurements. It also derives the asymptotic properties and variances of the proposed estimators. Extensive simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed estimators, demonstrating its ability to improve accuracy in estimated exposure effects. An illustrative application assesses the impact of greenness exposure on depression incidence in the Nurses' Health Study (NHS). The results demonstrate that correcting for measurement error significantly enhances the accuracy of exposure estimates. This method offers a critical advancement for accurately assessing the health impacts of environmental exposures, outperforming traditional static buffer approaches.
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spellingShingle Measurement Error Correction for Spatially Defined Environmental Exposures in Survival Analysis
Ge, Lin
Yang, Ce
Zucker, David
Li, Jiaxuan
Spiegelman, Donna
Wang, Molin
Methodology
Environmental exposures are often defined using buffer zones around geocoded home addresses, but these static boundaries can miss dynamic daily activity patterns, leading to biased results. This paper presents a novel measurement error correction method for spatially defined environmental exposures within a survival analysis framework using the Cox proportional hazards model. The method corrects high-dimensional surrogate exposures from geocoded residential data at multiple buffer radii by applying principal component analysis for dimension reduction and leveraging external GPS-tracked validation datasets containing true exposure measurements. It also derives the asymptotic properties and variances of the proposed estimators. Extensive simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed estimators, demonstrating its ability to improve accuracy in estimated exposure effects. An illustrative application assesses the impact of greenness exposure on depression incidence in the Nurses' Health Study (NHS). The results demonstrate that correcting for measurement error significantly enhances the accuracy of exposure estimates. This method offers a critical advancement for accurately assessing the health impacts of environmental exposures, outperforming traditional static buffer approaches.
title Measurement Error Correction for Spatially Defined Environmental Exposures in Survival Analysis
topic Methodology
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09278