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Activity Number: 134
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, July 30, 2012 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Biopharmaceutical Section
Abstract - #305696
Title: Comparing the Performance of Disease Risk Score Analysis, Propensity Score Analysis, and Multivariate Logistic Regression in a Simulated Data Set for Estimating Odds Ratios (OR)
Author(s): In-Lu Amy Liu*+ and Jiaxiao M Shi and Wansu Chen
Companies: Kaiser Permanente and Kaiser Permanente and Kaiser Permanente
Address: 1272 Wesley Ave, Pasedena, CA, 91104, United States
Keywords: disease risk score ; propensity score ; multivariate logistic regression ; odds ratio
Abstract:

Disease risk score (DRS) and propensity score (PS) are popular tools to balance covariates in observational studies. However, their strengths and weaknesses compared to the multivariate logistic regression (MLR) remain unknown. We conducted simulation to evaluate the performance of DRS, two DRS modifications, the probability and logit-based PS and MLR. When the association between the outcome and exposure is null (OR=1) or when the outcome is extremely rare (1%), the logit-based PS performs the best in terms of both bias and MSE, while the probability-based PS and MLR behave equally well. Bias and MSE were large for all versions of DRS. When the association between the outcome and exposure is not null (OR=2 or 3) and the outcome is not extremely rare (5% or 10%), MLR had the smallest bias as long as the models included all the outcome related covariates. However, one of the modified DRS slightly outperformed the MLR in some scenarios. PS methods performed poorly when OR is not null and outcome is not extremely rare due to the fact that they estimate marginal OR instead of conditional OR. Users need to be aware of the type of OR to be estimated before choosing an appropriate method.


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