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An efficient and accurate distributed learning algorithm for modeling multi-site zero-inflated count outcomes.

Mackenzie J Edmondson¹, Chongliang Luo¹, Rui Duan²

¹Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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A new privacy-preserving algorithm, ODAH, accurately models rare health outcomes across multiple healthcare systems without sharing patient data. This method significantly reduces bias compared to traditional meta-analysis, improving clinical research network data analysis.

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Biostatistics
Health Informatics
Clinical Research

Background:

Clinical research networks (CRNs) facilitate multi-system data analysis but face privacy barriers to patient-level data sharing.
Existing methods like meta-analysis can introduce bias, especially for rare events and zero-inflated data common in healthcare.
Multi-site regression is often infeasible due to privacy regulations preventing data pooling.

Purpose of the Study:

To introduce a communication-efficient, privacy-preserving algorithm for modeling multi-site zero-inflated count outcomes.
To develop a method that approximates pooled data analysis results without direct patient data sharing.
To address limitations of meta-analysis in CRNs, particularly concerning bias in rare-event contexts.

Main Methods:

A one-shot distributed algorithm for hurdle regression (ODAH) was developed to model zero-inflated count data across multiple sites.
The algorithm was evaluated using extensive simulations and two real-world electronic health record datasets.
ODAH was compared against traditional meta-analysis for accuracy and bias in distributed data modeling.

Main Results:

ODAH demonstrated minimal bias (<0.1%) in simulations across various settings, significantly outperforming meta-analysis (up to 12.7% bias).
Meta-analysis performance degraded notably with high zero-inflation or low event rates.
In real-world analyses, ODAH yielded <10% bias for 18 of 20 coefficients, while meta-analysis showed substantially higher bias.

Conclusions:

ODAH provides a highly accurate and computationally efficient solution for modeling multi-site zero-inflated count data within CRNs.
The algorithm overcomes privacy limitations, enabling robust analysis without compromising patient data confidentiality.
ODAH offers a superior alternative to meta-analysis for distributed data analysis in healthcare research, especially in challenging data scenarios.