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Developing Biomarker Combinations In Multicenter Studies Via Direct Maximization And Penalization, Allison Meisner, Chirag R. Parikh, Kathleen F. Kerr
Developing Biomarker Combinations In Multicenter Studies Via Direct Maximization And Penalization, Allison Meisner, Chirag R. Parikh, Kathleen F. Kerr
UW Biostatistics Working Paper Series
When biomarker studies involve patients at multiple centers and the goal is to develop biomarker combinations for diagnosis, prognosis, or screening, we consider evaluating the predictive capacity of a given combination with the center-adjusted AUC (aAUC), a summary of conditional performance. Rather than using a general method to construct the biomarker combination, such as logistic regression, we propose estimating the combination by directly maximizing the aAUC. Furthermore, it may be desirable to have a biomarker combination with similar predictive capacity across centers. To that end, we allow for penalization of the variability in center-specific performance. We demonstrate good asymptotic properties …