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Statistical tests for heterogeneity of clusters and composite endpoints

2021-06-22 epidemiology Title + abstract only
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Clinical trials and epidemiological cohort studies often group similar diseases together into a composite endpoint, to increase statistical power. A common example is to use a 3-digit code from the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), to represent a collection of several 4-digit coded diseases. More recently, data-driven studies are using associations with risk factors to cluster diseases, leading this article to reconsider the assumptions needed to study a composite endpoint of sever...

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