Unknown

Dataset Information

0

Simulation-based power calculations for planning a two-stage individual participant data meta-analysis.


ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Researchers and funders should consider the statistical power of planned Individual Participant Data (IPD) meta-analysis projects, as they are often time-consuming and costly. We propose simulation-based power calculations utilising a two-stage framework, and illustrate the approach for a planned IPD meta-analysis of randomised trials with continuous outcomes where the aim is to identify treatment-covariate interactions. METHODS:The simulation approach has four steps: (i) specify an underlying (data generating) statistical model for trials in the IPD meta-analysis; (ii) use readily available information (e.g. from publications) and prior knowledge (e.g. number of studies promising IPD) to specify model parameter values (e.g. control group mean, intervention effect, treatment-covariate interaction); (iii) simulate an IPD meta-analysis dataset of a particular size from the model, and apply a two-stage IPD meta-analysis to obtain the summary estimate of interest (e.g. interaction effect) and its associated p-value; (iv) repeat the previous step (e.g. thousands of times), then estimate the power to detect a genuine effect by the proportion of summary estimates with a significant p-value. RESULTS:In a planned IPD meta-analysis of lifestyle interventions to reduce weight gain in pregnancy, 14 trials (1183 patients) promised their IPD to examine a treatment-BMI interaction (i.e. whether baseline BMI modifies intervention effect on weight gain). Using our simulation-based approach, a two-stage IPD meta-analysis has

SUBMITTER: Ensor J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5960205 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

altmetric image

Publications

Simulation-based power calculations for planning a two-stage individual participant data meta-analysis.

Ensor Joie J   Burke Danielle L DL   Snell Kym I E KIE   Hemming Karla K   Riley Richard D RD  

BMC medical research methodology 20180518 1


<h4>Background</h4>Researchers and funders should consider the statistical power of planned Individual Participant Data (IPD) meta-analysis projects, as they are often time-consuming and costly. We propose simulation-based power calculations utilising a two-stage framework, and illustrate the approach for a planned IPD meta-analysis of randomised trials with continuous outcomes where the aim is to identify treatment-covariate interactions.<h4>Methods</h4>The simulation approach has four steps: (  ...[more]

Similar Datasets

| S-EPMC3621872 | biostudies-other
| S-EPMC6175226 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC6720416 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4847645 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC8501726 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC6347966 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC4893003 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC3963448 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC6492097 | biostudies-literature
| S-EPMC2257998 | biostudies-other