Estimating Risk Factors for Pathogenic Dose Accrual From Longitudinal Data

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contents Estimating Risk Factors for Pathogenic Dose Accrual From Longitudinal Data Daniel K. Sewell Kelly K. Baker Statistics in Medicine ABSTRACT Estimating risk factors for the incidence of a disease is crucial for understanding its etiology. For diseases caused by enteric pathogens, off‐the‐shelf statistical model‐based approaches do not consider the biological mechanisms through which infection occurs and thus can only be used to make comparatively weak statements about the association between risk factors and incidence. Building off of established work in quantitative microbiological risk assessment, we propose a new approach to determining the association between risk factors and dose accrual rates. Our more mechanistic approach achieves a higher degree of biological plausibility, incorporates currently ignored sources of variability, and provides regression parameters that are easily interpretable as the dose accrual rate ratio due to changes in the risk factors under study. We also describe a method for leveraging information across multiple pathogens. The proposed methods are available as an R package at https://github.com/dksewell/dare . Our simulation study shows unacceptable coverage rates from generalized linear models, while the proposed approach empirically maintains the nominal rate even when the model is misspecified. Finally, we demonstrated our proposed approach by applying our method to infant data obtained through the PATHOME study ( https://reporter.nih.gov/project‐details/10227256 ), discovering the impact of various environmental factors on infant enteric infections. 10.1002/sim.70291 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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spellingShingle Estimating Risk Factors for Pathogenic Dose Accrual From Longitudinal Data
Daniel K. Sewell
Kelly K. Baker
Statistics in Medicine
Estimating Risk Factors for Pathogenic Dose Accrual From Longitudinal Data Daniel K. Sewell Kelly K. Baker Statistics in Medicine ABSTRACT Estimating risk factors for the incidence of a disease is crucial for understanding its etiology. For diseases caused by enteric pathogens, off‐the‐shelf statistical model‐based approaches do not consider the biological mechanisms through which infection occurs and thus can only be used to make comparatively weak statements about the association between risk factors and incidence. Building off of established work in quantitative microbiological risk assessment, we propose a new approach to determining the association between risk factors and dose accrual rates. Our more mechanistic approach achieves a higher degree of biological plausibility, incorporates currently ignored sources of variability, and provides regression parameters that are easily interpretable as the dose accrual rate ratio due to changes in the risk factors under study. We also describe a method for leveraging information across multiple pathogens. The proposed methods are available as an R package at https://github.com/dksewell/dare . Our simulation study shows unacceptable coverage rates from generalized linear models, while the proposed approach empirically maintains the nominal rate even when the model is misspecified. Finally, we demonstrated our proposed approach by applying our method to infant data obtained through the PATHOME study ( https://reporter.nih.gov/project‐details/10227256 ), discovering the impact of various environmental factors on infant enteric infections. 10.1002/sim.70291 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
title Estimating Risk Factors for Pathogenic Dose Accrual From Longitudinal Data
topic Statistics in Medicine
url https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sim.70291