A nonparametric measure of local association for two-way contingency tables

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2013.06.013MaRDI QIDQ1615134zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francis K. C. Hui, Gery Geenens

Publication date 2 November 2018

Published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3460

zbMATH Keywords

bootstrapkernel estimationbinary regressionconditional independenceodds ratioNadaraya-Watson

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Density estimation (62G07) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Nonparametric tolerance and confidence regions (62G15) Contingency tables (62H17)

Abstract: In contingency table analysis, the odds ratio is a commonly applied measure used to summarize the degree of association between two categorical variables, say R and S. Suppose now that for each individual in the table, a vector of continuous variables X is also observed. It is then vital to analyze whether and how the degree of association varies with X. In this work, we extend the classical odds ratio to the conditional case, and develop nonparametric estimators of this "pointwise odds ratio" to summarize the strength of local association between R and S given X. To allow for maximum flexibility, we make this extension using kernel regression. We develop confidence intervals based on these nonparametric estimators. We demonstrate via simulation that our pointwise odds ratio estimators can outperform model-based counterparts from logistic regression and GAMs, without the need for a linearity or additivity assumption. Finally, we illustrate its application to a dataset of patients from an intensive care unit (ICU), offering a greater insight into how the association between survival of patients admitted for emergency versus elective reasons varies with the patients' ages.

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• pyuvdata
• gamair
• KernSmooth

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