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  • Pharmacovigilance
  • Biostatistics
  • Drug Safety Analysis

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  • Sequence symmetry analysis is crucial for evaluating drug safety, especially with active comparators.
  • Time-varying confounding is a significant challenge in these analyses.
  • Accurate estimation of confidence intervals (CIs) for sequence ratios (SRs) is essential for reliable safety conclusions.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To compare the performance of different methods for estimating 95% CIs for SRs in active comparator sequence symmetry analysis.
  • To identify the most accurate CI estimation method, particularly under conditions of low sample size and potential confounding.

Main Methods:

  • A simulation study was conducted using the binomial distribution to generate drug-outcome and outcome-drug sequences.
  • Scenarios included varying sample sizes (5-50 sequences) and SR values (0.5, 1.0, 2.0), replicated 5000 times.
  • Calculated 95% CIs using exact CIs, Woolf logit, Baptista-Pike mid-p, and Miettinen-Nurminen score estimators, assessing coverage accuracy.

Main Results:

  • Most interval estimators achieved acceptable coverage (>15 sample sizes), excluding the exact Clopper-Pearson interval.
  • The Miettinen-Nurminen score (0.951 coverage) and Baptista-Pike mid-p (0.955 coverage) showed superior accuracy.
  • The exact Clopper-Pearson interval exhibited the largest deviation from the nominal 0.95 coverage (0.979).

Conclusions:

  • The Miettinen-Nurminen score estimator is recommended for calculating 95% CIs of active comparator SRs due to its accurate coverage, especially with small sample sizes.
  • This finding is critical for improving the reliability of drug safety assessments in pharmacovigilance.