A marginal rank-based inverse normal transformation approach to comparing multiple clinical trial endpoints
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- 作者：Xiaoyu Cai ; Huiyun Li and Aiyi Liu
- 刊名：Statistics in Medicine
- 出版年：2016
- 出版时间：30 August 2016
- 年：2016
- 卷：35
- 期：19
- 页码：3259-3271
- 全文大小：297K
- ISSN：1097-0258
文摘
The increase in incidence of obesity and chronic diseases and their health care costs have raised the importance of quality diet on the health policy agendas. The healthy eating index is an important measure for diet quality which consists of 12 components derived from ratios of dependent variables with distributions hard to specify, measurement errors and excessive zero observations difficult to model parametrically. Hypothesis testing involving data of such nature poses challenges because the widely used multiple comparison procedures such as Hotelling's T2 test and Bonferroni correction may suffer from substantial loss of efficiency. We propose a marginal rank-based inverse normal transformation approach to normalizing the marginal distribution of the data before employing a multivariate test procedure. Extensive simulation was conducted to demonstrate the ability of the proposed approach to adequately control the type I error rate as well as increase the power of the test, with data particularly from non-symmetric or heavy-tailed distributions. The methods are exemplified with data from a dietary intervention study for type I diabetic children. Published 2016. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA