Targeted Data Fusion for Region-Specific Survival Effects in the AMP HIV Prevention Trials

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Autori principali: Liu, Yi, Levis, Alexander W., Zhu, Ke, Yang, Shu, Gilbert, Peter B., Han, Larry
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Liu, Yi
Levis, Alexander W.
Zhu, Ke
Yang, Shu
Gilbert, Peter B.
Han, Larry
author_facet Liu, Yi
Levis, Alexander W.
Zhu, Ke
Yang, Shu
Gilbert, Peter B.
Han, Larry
contents The Antibody Mediated Prevention (AMP) trials opened a new scientific frontier by showing that passively administered monoclonal broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) could prevent HIV-1 acquisition. Conducted across multiple geographic regions, including the United States, Brazil, Peru, Switzerland, and sub-Saharan Africa, the AMP trials revealed substantial regional heterogeneity in treatment efficacy. These differences, together with privacy and regulatory limits on central data pooling, call for methods that borrow strength across regions without sharing individual-level data. To estimate region- and treatment-specific survival curves under distributional heterogeneity, we develop a federated learning approach that combines site-specific estimators via an L1-regularized criterion that downweights data sources not aligned with the target. We further extend the framework to a general class of causal contrasts, including the risk difference (RD), survival ratio (SR), and restricted mean survival time (RMST) difference. Through extensive simulations and an analysis of the AMP trials under different target populations, we show that the proposed approach provides privacy-preserving, region-adaptive inference with improved precision.
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spellingShingle Targeted Data Fusion for Region-Specific Survival Effects in the AMP HIV Prevention Trials
Liu, Yi
Levis, Alexander W.
Zhu, Ke
Yang, Shu
Gilbert, Peter B.
Han, Larry
Methodology
Statistics Theory
Machine Learning
The Antibody Mediated Prevention (AMP) trials opened a new scientific frontier by showing that passively administered monoclonal broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) could prevent HIV-1 acquisition. Conducted across multiple geographic regions, including the United States, Brazil, Peru, Switzerland, and sub-Saharan Africa, the AMP trials revealed substantial regional heterogeneity in treatment efficacy. These differences, together with privacy and regulatory limits on central data pooling, call for methods that borrow strength across regions without sharing individual-level data. To estimate region- and treatment-specific survival curves under distributional heterogeneity, we develop a federated learning approach that combines site-specific estimators via an L1-regularized criterion that downweights data sources not aligned with the target. We further extend the framework to a general class of causal contrasts, including the risk difference (RD), survival ratio (SR), and restricted mean survival time (RMST) difference. Through extensive simulations and an analysis of the AMP trials under different target populations, we show that the proposed approach provides privacy-preserving, region-adaptive inference with improved precision.
title Targeted Data Fusion for Region-Specific Survival Effects in the AMP HIV Prevention Trials
topic Methodology
Statistics Theory
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.18798