Interval estimation for minimal clinically important difference and its classification error via a bootstrap scheme

Zehua Zhou, Jiwei Zhao and Melissa Kluczynski

Statistical Theory and Related Fields, 2020, vol. 4, issue 2, 135-145

Abstract: With the improved knowledge on clinical relevance and more convenient access to the patient-reported outcome data, clinical researchers prefer to adopt minimal clinically important difference (MCID) rather than statistical significance as a testing standard to examine the effectiveness of certain intervention or treatment in clinical trials. A practical method to determining the MCID is based on the diagnostic measurement. By using this approach, the MCID can be formulated as the solution of a large margin classification problem. However, this method only produces the point estimation, hence lacks ways to evaluate its performance. In this paper, we introduce an m-out-of-n bootstrap approach which provides the interval estimations for MCID and its classification error, an associated accuracy measure for performance assessment. A variety of extensive simulation studies are implemented to show the advantages of our proposed method. Analysis of the chondral lesions and meniscus procedures (ChAMP) trial is our motivating example and is used to illustrate our method.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/24754269.2019.1587692

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