Journal
BIOSTATISTICS
Volume 20, Issue 2, Pages 332-346Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/biostatistics/kxy005
Keywords
Case-control; Cluster-randomized trials; Odds ratio; Test-negative design
Funding
- NIAID NIH HHS [R56 AI134724] Funding Source: Medline
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Intervention trials of vector control methods often require community level randomization with appropriate inferential methods. For many interventions, the possibility of confounding due to the effects of health-care seeking behavior on disease ascertainment remains a concern. The test-negative design, a variant of the case-control method, was introduced to mitigate this issue in the assessment of the efficacy of influenza vaccination (measured at an individual level) on influenza infection. Here, we introduce a cluster-randomized test-negative design that includes randomization of the intervention at a group level. We propose several methods for estimation and inference regarding the relative risk (RR). The inferential methods considered are based on the randomization distribution induced by permuting intervention assignment across two sets of randomly selected clusters. The motivating example is a current study of the efficacy of randomized releases of Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti mosquitoes to reduce the incidence of dengue in Yogyakarta City, Indonesia. Estimation and inference techniques are assessed through a simulation study.
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