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M Paul¹, A Riebler, L M Bachmann

¹Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. michaela.paul@ifspm.uzh.ch

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Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA) offers a stable Bayesian approach for bivariate meta-analysis, outperforming traditional methods in accuracy and user-friendliness. It provides better coverage and less bias in diagnostic study estimates.

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Biostatistics
Medical Informatics
Diagnostic Accuracy Research

Background:

Bivariate meta-analysis of diagnostic studies commonly employs likelihood approaches, which can suffer from numerical instability and convergence issues.
Confidence interval construction in these analyses remains a point of contention.
Existing Bayesian methods, such as Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) sampling, are computationally intensive and require rigorous convergence diagnostics.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the performance of Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (INLA), a novel Bayesian deterministic inference method, for bivariate meta-analysis of diagnostic studies.
To compare INLA with traditional maximum likelihood (SAS PROC NLMIXED) and MCMC sampling methods.
To assess the influence of prior information on the results of these different analytical approaches.

Main Methods:

A real-world dataset of diagnostic studies was analyzed using INLA, MCMC, and SAS PROC NLMIXED.
A simulation study was conducted to compare INLA and SAS PROC NLMIXED regarding bias, mean-squared error, coverage probability, and convergence rates.
The study utilized documented R-code to demonstrate the user-friendliness of INLA.

Main Results:

INLA demonstrated greater stability compared to other methods.
INLA provided improved coverage probabilities for pooled estimates and reduced bias in variance parameter estimation.
The study confirmed that INLA makes MCMC sampling redundant by directly and accurately approximating posterior marginal distributions.

Conclusions:

INLA presents a robust and user-friendly alternative for bivariate meta-analysis of diagnostic studies.
The method offers advantages in terms of numerical stability, accuracy of estimates, and computational efficiency over traditional likelihood and MCMC approaches.
INLA facilitates more reliable diagnostic accuracy assessments and meta-analytic syntheses.