1. The performance of functional methods for correcting non-Gaussian measurement error within Poisson regression: corrected excess risk of lung cancer mortality in relation to radon exposure among French uranium miners
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Dominique Laurier, Estelle Rage, Rodrigue S. Allodji, Stéphane Henry, Anne C. M. Thiébaut, Klervi Leuraud, Jacques Benichou, Laboratoire d épidémiologie des rayonnements ionisants (IRSN/PSE-SANTE/SESANE/LEPID), Service de recherche sur les effets biologiques et Sanitaires des rayonnements ionisants (IRSN/PSE-SANTE/SESANE), Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN)-Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), Pharmacoépidémiologie et maladies infectieuses (PhEMI), Institut Pasteur [Paris] (IP)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), AREVA, Groupe AREVA, CHU Rouen, Normandie Université (NU), This work was partly supported by AREVA NC, in the framework of a bilateral IRSN-AREVA-NC agreement., ATHENA, Irsn, PRPHOM, SRBE, LEPID, Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), and Institut Pasteur [Paris]-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)
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Lung Neoplasms ,Epidemiology ,Calibration (statistics) ,[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Normal Distribution ,MESH: Risk Assessment ,01 natural sciences ,MESH: Regression Analysis ,MESH: Occupational Exposure ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Cohort Studies ,010104 statistics & probability ,0302 clinical medicine ,Statistics ,Econometrics ,MESH: Bias ,Poisson Distribution ,MESH: Cohort Studies ,Mathematics ,Absolute risk reduction ,MESH: Mining ,[SDV] Life Sciences [q-bio] ,Radon ,Cohort ,symbols ,Regression Analysis ,Uranium ,France ,Statistics and Probability ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Risk Assessment ,MESH: Radiation Monitoring ,Mining ,MESH: Poisson Distribution ,03 medical and health sciences ,symbols.namesake ,MESH: Computer Simulation ,Bias ,Radiation Monitoring ,Occupational Exposure ,Humans ,Computer Simulation ,Poisson regression ,0101 mathematics ,MESH: Normal Distribution ,Observational error ,MESH: Humans ,MESH: Lung Neoplasms ,MESH: France ,chemistry ,Relative risk ,MESH: Uranium ,Correction for attenuation ,MESH: Radon - Abstract
International audience; A broad variety of methods for measurement error (ME) correction have been developed, but these methods have rarely been applied possibly because their ability to correct ME is poorly understood. We carried out a simulation study to assess the performance of three error-correction methods two variants of regression calibration (the substitution method and the estimation calibration method) and the simulation extrapolation (SIMEX) method. Features of the simulated cohorts were borrowed from the French Uranium Miners' Cohort in which exposure to radon had been documented from 1946 to 1999. In the absence of ME correction, we observed a severe attenuation of the true effect of radon exposure, with a negative relative bias of the order of 60% on the excess relative risk of lung cancer death. In the main scenario considered, that is, when ME characteristics previously determined as most plausible from the French Uranium Miners' Cohort were used both to generate exposure data and to correct for ME at the analysis stage, all three error-correction methods showed a noticeable but partial reduction of the attenuation bias, with a slight advantage for the SIMEX method. However, the performance of the three correction methods highly depended on the accurate determination of the characteristics of ME. In particular, we encountered severe overestimation in some scenarios with the SIMEX method, and we observed lack of correction with the three methods in some other scenarios. For illustration, we also applied and compared the proposed methods on the real data set from the French Uranium Miners' Cohort study. © 2012 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
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- 2011
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