{"title":"A Model-Based Approach to Assess Epidemic Risk.","authors":"Hugo Dolan, Riccardo Rastelli","doi":"10.1007/s12561-021-09329-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12561-021-09329-z","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We study how international flights can facilitate the spread of an epidemic to a worldwide scale. We combine an infrastructure network of flight connections with a population density dataset to derive the mobility network, and then we define an epidemic framework to model the spread of the disease. Our approach combines a compartmental SEIRS model with a graph diffusion model to capture the clusteredness of the distribution of the population. The resulting model is characterised by the dynamics of a metapopulation SEIRS, with amplification or reduction of the infection rate which is determined also by the mobility of individuals. We use simulations to characterise and study a variety of realistic scenarios that resemble the recent spread of COVID-19. Crucially, we define a formal framework that can be used to design epidemic mitigation strategies: we propose an optimisation approach based on genetic algorithms that can be used to identify an optimal airport closure strategy, and that can be employed to aid decision making for the mitigation of the epidemic, in a timely manner.</p>","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8591322/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39644376","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Augmenting Both Arms of a Randomized Controlled Trial Using External Data: An Application of the Propensity Score-Integrated Approaches.","authors":"Heng Li, Wei-Chen Chen, Chenguang Wang, Nelson Lu, Changhong Song, Ram Tiwari, Yunling Xu, Lilly Q Yue","doi":"10.1007/s12561-021-09315-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-021-09315-5","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Leveraging external data is a topic that have recently received much attention. The propensity score-integrated approaches are a methodological innovation for this purpose. In this paper we adapt these approaches, originally introduced to augment single-arm studies with external data, for the augmentation of both arms of a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with external data. After recapitulating the basic ideas, we provide a step-by-step tutorial of how to implement the propensity score-integrated approaches, from study design to outcome analysis, in the RCT setting in such a way that the study integrity and objectively are maintained. Both the Bayesian (power prior) approach and the frequentist (composite likelihood) approach are included. Some extensions and variations of these approaches are also outlined at the end of this paper.</p>","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12561-021-09315-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"39133259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Bayesian Two-Sample t Test and Solution to the Behrens–Fisher Problem Based on Gaussian Mixture Modelling with Known Allocations","authors":"Riko Kelter","doi":"10.1007/s12561-021-09326-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-021-09326-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45797212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Correction to: Sample Size Re-estimation with the Com-Nougue Method to Evaluate Treatment Effect","authors":"Jin Wang","doi":"10.1007/s12561-021-09333-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-021-09333-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"52603334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Joint Modeling of Geometric Features of Longitudinal Process and Discrete Survival Time Measured on Nested Timescales: An Application to Fecundity Studies","authors":"Abhisek Saha, Ling Ma, A. Biswas, R. Sundaram","doi":"10.1007/s12561-023-09381-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-023-09381-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46399657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Licai Huang, Paul Little, Jeroen R Huyghe, Qian Shi, Tabitha A Harrison, Greg Yothers, Thomas J George, Ulrike Peters, Andrew T Chan, Polly A Newcomb, Wei Sun
{"title":"A Statistical Method for Association Analysis of Cell Type Compositions.","authors":"Licai Huang, Paul Little, Jeroen R Huyghe, Qian Shi, Tabitha A Harrison, Greg Yothers, Thomas J George, Ulrike Peters, Andrew T Chan, Polly A Newcomb, Wei Sun","doi":"10.1007/s12561-020-09293-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s12561-020-09293-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gene expression data are often collected from tissue samples that are composed of multiple cell types. Studies of cell type composition based on gene expression data from tissue samples have recently attracted increasing research interest and led to new method development for cell type composition estimation. This new information on cell type composition can be associated with individual characteristics (e.g., genetic variants) or clinical outcomes (e.g., survival time). Such association analysis can be conducted for each cell type separately followed by multiple testing correction. An alternative approach is to evaluate this association using the composition of all the cell types, thus aggregating association signals across cell types. A key challenge of this approach is to account for the dependence across cell types. We propose a new method to quantify the distances between cell types while accounting for their dependencies, and use this information for association analysis. We demonstrate our method in two applied examples: to assess the association between immune cell type composition in tumor samples of colorectal cancer patients versus survival time and SNP genotypes. We found immune cell composition has prognostic value, and our distance metric leads to more accurate survival time prediction than other distance metrics that ignore cell type dependencies. In addition, survival time-associated SNPs are enriched among the SNPs associated with immune cell composition.</p>","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s12561-020-09293-0","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"10319800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Unified Decision Framework for Phase I Dose-Finding Designs","authors":"Yunshan Duan, Shijie Yuan, Yuan Ji, Peter Mueller","doi":"10.1007/s12561-023-09379-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-023-09379-5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48870494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Randall Reese, G. Fu, Geran Zhao, Xiaotian Dai, Xiaotian Li, K. Chiu
{"title":"Epistasis Detection via the Joint Cumulant","authors":"Randall Reese, G. Fu, Geran Zhao, Xiaotian Dai, Xiaotian Li, K. Chiu","doi":"10.1007/s12561-022-09336-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-022-09336-8","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47939585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Md. Tuhin Sheikh, Ming-Hui Chen, J. Gelfond, J. Ibrahim
{"title":"A Power Prior Approach for Leveraging External Longitudinal and Competing Risks Survival Data Within the Joint Modeling Framework","authors":"Md. Tuhin Sheikh, Ming-Hui Chen, J. Gelfond, J. Ibrahim","doi":"10.1007/s12561-021-09330-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-021-09330-6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43092140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Efficacy-Driven Dose Finding with Toxicity Control in Phase I Oncology Studies","authors":"Qingyang Liu, J. Geng, F. Fleischer, Q. Deng","doi":"10.1007/s12561-021-09327-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-021-09327-1","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45094,"journal":{"name":"Statistics in Biosciences","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47633278","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}