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The scale transformed power prior for use with historical data from a different outcome model

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STATISTICS IN MEDICINE
Volume 42, Issue 1, Pages 1-14

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/sim.9598

Keywords

Bayesian analysis; heterogeneous endpoints; historical data; information borrowing

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The study develops a method called "scale transformed power prior" for situations where historical and current data involve different data types. The scale transformed power prior addresses the issue of different data types by rescaling the parameter. Examples and simulation studies are provided to demonstrate the performance advantages of the scale transformed power prior over other priors.
We develop the scale transformed power prior for settings where historical and current data involve different data types, such as binary and continuous data. This situation arises often in clinical trials, for example, when historical data involve binary responses and the current data involve some other type of continuous or discrete outcome. The power prior, proposed by Ibrahim and Chen, does not address the issue of different data types. Herein, we develop a new type of power prior, which we call the scale transformed power prior (straPP). The straPP is constructed by transforming the power prior for the historical data by rescaling the parameter using a function of the Fisher information matrices for the historical and current data models, thereby shifting the scale of the parameter vector from that of the historical to that of the current data. Examples are presented to motivate the need for such a transformation, and simulation studies are presented to illustrate the performance advantages of the straPP over the power prior and other informative and noninformative priors. A real dataset from a clinical trial undertaken to study a novel transitional care model for stroke survivors is used to illustrate the methodology.

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