Permutation Testing for Treatment–Covariate Interactions and Subgroup Identification

Jared C. Foster (), Bin Nan (), Lei Shen (), Niko Kaciroti () and Jeremy M. G. Taylor ()
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Jared C. Foster: National Institutes of Health
Bin Nan: University of Michigan
Lei Shen: Eli Lilly
Niko Kaciroti: University of Michigan
Jeremy M. G. Taylor: University of Michigan

Statistics in Biosciences, 2016, vol. 8, issue 1, No 6, 77-98

Abstract: Abstract We consider the problem of using permutation-based methods to test for treatment–covariate interactions from randomized clinical trial data. Testing for interactions is common in the field of personalized medicine, as subgroups with enhanced treatment effects arise when treatment-by-covariate interactions exist. Asymptotic tests can often be performed for simple models, but in many cases, more complex methods are used to identify subgroups, and non-standard test statistics proposed, and asymptotic results may be difficult to obtain. In such cases, it is natural to consider permutation-based tests, which shuffle selected parts of the data in order to remove one or more associations of interest; however, in the case of interactions, it is generally not possible to remove only the associations of interest by simple permutations of the data. We propose a number of alternative permutation-based methods, designed to remove only the associations of interest, but preserving other associations. These methods estimate the interaction term in a model, then create data that “looks like” the original data except that the interaction term has been permuted. The proposed methods are shown to outperform traditional permutation methods in a simulation study. In addition, the proposed methods are illustrated using data from a randomized clinical trial of patients with hypertension.

Keywords: Permutation tests; Treatment–covariate interactions; Subgroup analysis; Personalized medicine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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