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Area of Science:

  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology
  • Health Data Science

Background:

  • Enhancing statistical analysis with external data is a growing research area.
  • Time-to-event data analysis faces challenges with incomparable external cohorts and unmeasured confounders.
  • Individualized risk assessment requires robust methods for integrating heterogeneous data sources.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel methodology for adaptively borrowing information from multiple incomparable external sources for time-to-event analysis.
  • To improve individualized risk assessment by addressing population heterogeneity and unmeasured risk factors.
  • To develop a privacy-preserving approach with low computational complexity.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing transitional models to extract aggregate statistics from external sources and the target population.
  • Employing the control variate technique for efficient information incorporation.
  • Avoiding direct use of individual-level records from external studies.

Main Results:

  • Asymptotically more efficient estimators for relative and baseline risks compared to traditional methods.
  • Significantly enhanced power for covariate effects testing.
  • Demonstrated practical performance through extensive simulations and a real case study.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed method effectively integrates information from multiple, potentially incomparable, external sources for time-to-event data.
  • The approach offers improved statistical efficiency and power while ensuring data privacy and computational feasibility.
  • This methodology advances individualized risk assessment in epidemiological and biostatistical research.