Bayesian Prognostic Covariate Adjustment With Additive Mixture Priors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.18027v4
• Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 18:57:15 GMT
• Title: Bayesian Prognostic Covariate Adjustment With Additive Mixture Priors
• Authors: Alyssa M. Vanderbeek and Arman Sabbaghi and Jon R. Walsh and Charles K. Fisher
• Abstract summary: We propose a new Bayesian prognostic covariate adjustment methodology, referred to as Bayesian PROCOVA. It is based on generative artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that construct a digital twin generator (DTG) for RCT participants. The DTG is trained on historical control data and yields a digital twin (DT) probability distribution for each RCT participant's outcome under the control treatment. We establish an efficient Gibbs algorithm for sampling from the posterior distribution, and derive closed-form expressions for the posterior mean and variance of the treatment effect parameter conditional on the weight.
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• Abstract: Effective and rapid decision-making from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) requires unbiased and precise treatment effect inferences. Two strategies to address this requirement are to adjust for covariates that are highly correlated with the outcome, and to leverage historical control information via Bayes' theorem. We propose a new Bayesian prognostic covariate adjustment methodology, referred to as Bayesian PROCOVA, that combines these two strategies. Covariate adjustment in Bayesian PROCOVA is based on generative artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms that construct a digital twin generator (DTG) for RCT participants. The DTG is trained on historical control data and yields a digital twin (DT) probability distribution for each RCT participant's outcome under the control treatment. The expectation of the DT distribution, referred to as the prognostic score, defines the covariate for adjustment. Historical control information is leveraged via an additive mixture prior with two components: an informative prior probability distribution specified based on historical control data, and a weakly informative prior distribution. The mixture weight determines the extent to which posterior inferences are drawn from the informative component, versus the weakly informative component. This weight has a prior distribution as well, and so the entire additive mixture prior is completely pre-specifiable without involving any RCT information. We establish an efficient Gibbs algorithm for sampling from the posterior distribution, and derive closed-form expressions for the posterior mean and variance of the treatment effect parameter conditional on the weight, in Bayesian PROCOVA. We evaluate efficiency gains of Bayesian PROCOVA via its bias control and variance reduction compared to frequentist PROCOVA in simulation studies that encompass different discrepancies. These gains translate to smaller RCTs.

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