Pan-disease clustering analysis of the trend of period prevalence

DOI10.1214/21-AOAS1470zbMATH Open1498.62225arXiv1809.06852OpenAlexW2891487002MaRDI QIDQ2078313FDOQ2078313

Authors: Sneha Jadhav, Chenjin Ma, Yefei Jiang, Ben-Chang Shia, Shuangge Ma 

Publication date: 28 February 2022

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For all diseases, prevalence has been carefully studied. In the "classic" paradigm, the prevalence of different diseases has usually been studied separately. Accumulating evidences have shown that diseases can be "correlated". The joint analysis of prevalence of multiple diseases can provide important insights beyond individual-disease analysis, however, has not been well conducted. In this study, we take advantage of the uniquely valuable Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database (NHIRD), and conduct a pan-disease analysis of period prevalence trend. The goal is to identify clusters within which diseases share similar period prevalence trends. For this purpose, a novel penalization pursuit approach is developed, which has an intuitive formulation and satisfactory properties. In data analysis, the period prevalence values are computed using records on close to 1 million subjects and 14 years of observation. For 405 diseases, 35 nontrivial clusters (with sizes larger than one) and 27 trivial clusters (with sizes one) are identified. The results differ significantly from those of the alternatives. A closer examination suggests that the clustering results have sound interpretations. This study is the first to conduct a pan-disease clustering analysis of prevalence trend using the uniquely valuable NHIRD data and can have important value in multiple aspects.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.06852

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zbMATH Keywords

functional clusteringdisease prevalenceNHIRDtemporal trends

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) (62H30) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10)

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• fda (R)
• gss

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