| Analysis of binary outcomes from randomised trials including multiple births: when should clustering be taken into account? | |
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PMID: 21470268 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Yelland LN, Salter AB, Ryan P, Makrides M. Analysis of binary outcomes from randomised trials including multiple births: when should clustering be taken into account? Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology 2011; 25: 283-297. Randomised trials involving infants from both single and multiple births present unique statistical challenges. A range of methods have been used to analyse such data, including standard methods which treat all infants as independent, and more complex methods which account for the dependence between outcomes of infants from the same pregnancy. Conflicting recommendations have been made regarding if and when this dependence, or clustering, should be taken into account in the analysis. We studied the performance of ordinary logistic regression, which ignores the clustering, compared with logistic generalised estimating equations (GEEs) and mixed effects models (MEMs), which account for the clustering, using real and simulated datasets. Ordinary logistic regression produced appropriate type I error and coverage rates, provided the dependence between outcomes of infants from the same pregnancy was small and the multiple birth rate was low, but performed poorly otherwise. The type I error rate increased and the coverage rate decreased as either the strength of the dependence or the multiple birth rate increased. In contrast, logistic GEEs maintained appropriate type I error and coverage rates across a wide range of settings. The performance of logistic MEMs varied depending on the setting and the estimation procedure used but was often similar to or better than ordinary logistic regression. We recommend using a method which takes the clustering into account when analysing datasets including infants from multiple births. |
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Lisa N Yelland; Amy B Salter; Philip Ryan; Maria Makrides |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Paediatric and perinatal epidemiology Volume: 25 ISSN: 1365-3016 ISO Abbreviation: Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol Publication Date: 2011 May |
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Created Date: 2011-04-07 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8709766 Medline TA: Paediatr Perinat Epidemiol Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 283-97 Citation Subset: IM |
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© 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. |
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aDiscipline of Public Health bDiscipline of Paediatrics, The University of Adelaide cWomen's and Children's Health Research Institute, North Adelaide, SA, Australia. |
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