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Xiaoye Ma1, Lei Nie2, Stephen R Cole3

  • 1Division of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

Statistical Methods in Medical Research
|June 28, 2013
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This tutorial covers statistical methods for meta-analysis of diagnostic tests. It details approaches for gold standard and imperfect reference tests, aiding researchers in synthesizing diagnostic accuracy data.

Keywords:
Meta-analysisdiagnostic testgeneralized linear mixed modelsgold standard

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Area of Science:

  • Statistics
  • Medical Informatics
  • Biostatistics

Background:

  • Meta-analysis of diagnostic tests is crucial for synthesizing evidence on test accuracy.
  • Existing methods often assume a perfect reference standard, limiting their applicability.
  • There is a need for comprehensive statistical approaches accommodating imperfect reference tests.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To provide an overview and tutorial of statistical methods for meta-analysis of diagnostic tests.
  • To address scenarios with both gold standard and imperfect reference tests.
  • To facilitate the practical implementation of these methods with SAS code.

Main Methods:

  • Review of conventional summary receiver operating characteristics (SROC) and bivariate linear mixed models for gold standard scenarios.
  • Discussion of hierarchical SROC and bivariate/trivariate generalized linear mixed models for jointly modeling accuracy and prevalence.
  • Introduction of latent class random effects models for meta-analysis with imperfect reference tests.

Main Results:

  • The article presents statistical models based on the exact binomial distribution, avoiding continuity corrections.
  • It demonstrates joint modeling of positivity criteria, accuracy parameters, prevalence, and their correlations.
  • Case studies with annotated SAS code are provided for practical application.

Conclusions:

  • The presented statistical methods offer robust approaches for meta-analysis of diagnostic tests under various reference standard conditions.
  • The tutorial facilitates the application of advanced statistical techniques, including those for imperfect reference tests.
  • This work supports more accurate and comprehensive synthesis of diagnostic test performance evidence.