Sequential knockoffs for continuous and categorical predictors : With application to a large psoriatic arthritis clinical trial pool

Knockoffs provide a general framework for controlling the false discovery rate when performing variable selection. Much of the Knockoffs literature focuses on theoretical challenges and we recognize a need for bringing some of the current ideas into practice. In this paper we propose a sequential algorithm for generating knockoffs when underlying data consists of both continuous and categorical (factor) variables. Further, we present a heuristic multiple knockoffs approach that offers a practical assessment of how robust the knockoff selection process is for a given dataset. We conduct extensive simulations to validate performance of the proposed methodology. Finally, we demonstrate the utility of the methods on a large clinical data pool of more than 2000 patients with psoriatic arthritis evaluated in four clinical trials with an IL‐17A inhibitor, secukinumab (Cosentyx), where we determine prognostic factors of a well established clinical outcome. The analyses presented in this paper could provide a wide range of applications to commonly encountered datasets in medical practice and other fields where variable selection is of particular interest..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:40

Enthalten in:

Statistics in Medicine - 40(2021), 14, Seite 3313-3328

Beteiligte Personen:

Kormaksson, Matthias [VerfasserIn]
Kelly, Luke J. [VerfasserIn]
Zhu, Xuan [VerfasserIn]
Haemmerle, Sibylle [VerfasserIn]
Pricop, Luminita [VerfasserIn]
Ohlssen, David [VerfasserIn]

BKL:

44.32

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© 2021 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Umfang:

16

doi:

10.1002/sim.8955

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

WLY013273493