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Efficiency loss with binary pre-processing of continuous monitoring data.
Paula R Langner1, Elizabeth Juarez-Colunga2, Lucas N Marzec3
1Denver/Seattle Center of Innovation, Department of Veterans Affairs Eastern Colorado Health Care System, 1700 North Wheeling Street, Aurora, 80045, CO, USA.
Statistics in Biosciences
|July 18, 2025
Summary
This study analyzes the efficiency of using binary outcome data versus count data for recurrent events, finding that binary data can maintain good efficiency for treatment effect estimation in certain conditions.
Area of Science:
- Biostatistics
- Clinical Trial Design
- Epidemiology
Background:
- Recurrent event outcomes are often analyzed using count data over time.
- Data coarsening to binary indicators can lead to information loss.
- Understanding efficiency loss is crucial for accurate treatment effect estimation.
Purpose of the Study:
- To examine the efficiency loss when coarsening longitudinal count data to binary indicators.
- To identify design aspects impacting treatment effect estimation with coarsened data.
- To evaluate the performance of binary versus count outcomes in recurrent event analysis.
Main Methods:
- Derivation of asymptotic relative efficiency (ARE) for treatment effect estimators.
- Comparison of estimators using coarsened binary outcomes versus count outcomes.
- Analysis of factors influencing efficiency in recurrent event data.
Main Results:
- Quantified efficiency loss associated with data coarsening in recurrent event studies.
- Identified conditions under which binary outcome analysis maintains substantial efficiency.
- Demonstrated the impact of study design on the ability to estimate treatment effects.
Conclusions:
- Coarsening recurrent event counts to binary indicators can result in efficiency loss.
- Binary outcome analysis may be sufficiently efficient for treatment effect estimation under specific circumstances.
- The findings are applicable to clinical trial design and analysis involving recurrent events, such as seizure counts.
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