Pub Date : 2026-03-24DOI: 10.1186/s12874-026-02826-z
Ruobing Li, Jingyi Zhang, Fangrong Yan, Jun Wang
{"title":"Comparative evaluation of Bayesian external information borrowing and frequentist approaches in underpowered confirmatory trials.","authors":"Ruobing Li, Jingyi Zhang, Fangrong Yan, Jun Wang","doi":"10.1186/s12874-026-02826-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-02826-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9114,"journal":{"name":"BMC Medical Research Methodology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147503110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-23DOI: 10.1186/s12874-026-02827-y
Jiali Song, Zhiwei Rong, Yan Hou
{"title":"Variational biomarker pooling with calibration for time-to-event outcomes across multiple clinical studies.","authors":"Jiali Song, Zhiwei Rong, Yan Hou","doi":"10.1186/s12874-026-02827-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-02827-y","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9114,"journal":{"name":"BMC Medical Research Methodology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147497685","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-23DOI: 10.1186/s12874-026-02836-x
Diezhang Wu, Igor Burstyn, William J Thompson, Jing Qian, Kenneth A Mundt
{"title":"Recall bias in population-based case-control studies of ovarian cancer and genital talcum powder use: potential impact and quantitative bias analysis.","authors":"Diezhang Wu, Igor Burstyn, William J Thompson, Jing Qian, Kenneth A Mundt","doi":"10.1186/s12874-026-02836-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-02836-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9114,"journal":{"name":"BMC Medical Research Methodology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147503070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-19DOI: 10.1186/s12874-026-02828-x
Yashaswini K, Priyanka K
{"title":"How reliable are ROC cut-offs? Evidence from simulation and empirical analysis.","authors":"Yashaswini K, Priyanka K","doi":"10.1186/s12874-026-02828-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-02828-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9114,"journal":{"name":"BMC Medical Research Methodology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147484310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-19DOI: 10.1186/s12874-026-02822-3
Kaustubh S Nimkar, Byron J Gajewski, Dinesh Pal Mudaranthakam, Jeffery A Thompson, Miranda E Handke, Robert N Montgomery, Akinlolu O Ojo
{"title":"Prediction and monitoring of accrual and rate of underrepresented biomedical research group using bayesian methods.","authors":"Kaustubh S Nimkar, Byron J Gajewski, Dinesh Pal Mudaranthakam, Jeffery A Thompson, Miranda E Handke, Robert N Montgomery, Akinlolu O Ojo","doi":"10.1186/s12874-026-02822-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-02822-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9114,"journal":{"name":"BMC Medical Research Methodology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147484346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-19DOI: 10.1186/s12874-026-02809-0
Sean McGrath, Yiran Wang, Yi-Ting Lin, John D Meeker, Sung Kyun Park, Joshua L Warren, Bhramar Mukherjee
Background: Environmental studies often evaluate how exposures influence health outcomes through intermediate biological processes. In practice, researchers are often interested in complex exposure mixtures rather than single agents, creating challenges for mediation analysis due to strong correlations among exposures, sparsity of active exposures, and possible nonlinear and interactive effects. This study compares and evaluates approaches for mediation analysis when exposures involve complex mixtures.
Methods: We review four strategies: (1) single-exposure mediation analysis that analyzes each exposure separately; (2) principal component-based mediation analysis that summarizes correlated exposures into orthogonal components; (3) environmental risk score-based mediation analysis that constructs a supervised prediction score for the exposure set and treats the score as the exposure; and (4) Bayesian kernel machine regression causal mediation analysis that flexibly models nonlinear and interactive mixture effects. For each approach, we clarify the target estimand and the assumptions required for causal interpretation. We conduct a simulation study to systematically evaluate the operating characteristics of these four methods to estimate global indirect effects and to identify individual exposures contributing to the global mediation under varying sample sizes and effect sizes. We then illustrate an application of these approaches in an observational birth cohort.
Results: In the simulation study, the single-exposure mediation analysis approach often produced highly biased estimates when not adjusting for co-exposures, and this bias was substantially reduced after co-exposure adjustment. For the mediation analysis methods designed to address the correlation and complexity in exposure mixtures, the performance often depended on a number of method-specific analytic choices, such as the number of principal components retained or the variable selection approach used in the Bayesian kernel machine regression method. In the data application, all methods found limited evidence of non-null global indirect effects and had broad agreement in which individual exposures were identified as potentially active, despite differences in their assumptions and causal estimands.
Conclusion: Multiple strategies are available for mediation analysis with exposure mixtures, each with distinct strengths. The study provides guidance on selecting and applying methods according to study aims and data features.
{"title":"A comparison and evaluation of statistical methods for mediation analysis with mixtures of environmental exposures.","authors":"Sean McGrath, Yiran Wang, Yi-Ting Lin, John D Meeker, Sung Kyun Park, Joshua L Warren, Bhramar Mukherjee","doi":"10.1186/s12874-026-02809-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-02809-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Environmental studies often evaluate how exposures influence health outcomes through intermediate biological processes. In practice, researchers are often interested in complex exposure mixtures rather than single agents, creating challenges for mediation analysis due to strong correlations among exposures, sparsity of active exposures, and possible nonlinear and interactive effects. This study compares and evaluates approaches for mediation analysis when exposures involve complex mixtures.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We review four strategies: (1) single-exposure mediation analysis that analyzes each exposure separately; (2) principal component-based mediation analysis that summarizes correlated exposures into orthogonal components; (3) environmental risk score-based mediation analysis that constructs a supervised prediction score for the exposure set and treats the score as the exposure; and (4) Bayesian kernel machine regression causal mediation analysis that flexibly models nonlinear and interactive mixture effects. For each approach, we clarify the target estimand and the assumptions required for causal interpretation. We conduct a simulation study to systematically evaluate the operating characteristics of these four methods to estimate global indirect effects and to identify individual exposures contributing to the global mediation under varying sample sizes and effect sizes. We then illustrate an application of these approaches in an observational birth cohort.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the simulation study, the single-exposure mediation analysis approach often produced highly biased estimates when not adjusting for co-exposures, and this bias was substantially reduced after co-exposure adjustment. For the mediation analysis methods designed to address the correlation and complexity in exposure mixtures, the performance often depended on a number of method-specific analytic choices, such as the number of principal components retained or the variable selection approach used in the Bayesian kernel machine regression method. In the data application, all methods found limited evidence of non-null global indirect effects and had broad agreement in which individual exposures were identified as potentially active, despite differences in their assumptions and causal estimands.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Multiple strategies are available for mediation analysis with exposure mixtures, each with distinct strengths. The study provides guidance on selecting and applying methods according to study aims and data features.</p>","PeriodicalId":9114,"journal":{"name":"BMC Medical Research Methodology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147479745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-17DOI: 10.1186/s12874-026-02825-0
Seon Young Lee, Jae Seon Hong, Sang Hyeok Lee, Rajen Gupta
{"title":"Compliance of systematic reviews and meta-analyses in ophthalmology with the PRISMA statement: an AI-based assessment and longitudinal comparison with 2017 data.","authors":"Seon Young Lee, Jae Seon Hong, Sang Hyeok Lee, Rajen Gupta","doi":"10.1186/s12874-026-02825-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-02825-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9114,"journal":{"name":"BMC Medical Research Methodology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147473037","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-13DOI: 10.1186/s12874-026-02805-4
Ibrahim Sadek, Shafiq Ul Rehman, Ahmed Gehad, Esraa G Eltasawi, Ahmed AbdelKader, Rawan Abdelnasser, Dina Nashaat, Raef Mourad Zaki, Lamees N Mahmoud
{"title":"From raw clinical data to robust prediction: an AI framework for early lymphedema detection.","authors":"Ibrahim Sadek, Shafiq Ul Rehman, Ahmed Gehad, Esraa G Eltasawi, Ahmed AbdelKader, Rawan Abdelnasser, Dina Nashaat, Raef Mourad Zaki, Lamees N Mahmoud","doi":"10.1186/s12874-026-02805-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-02805-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9114,"journal":{"name":"BMC Medical Research Methodology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147455434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-03-12DOI: 10.1186/s12874-026-02817-0
Abubaker Suliman, Aminu S Abdullahi, Mohammad Mehedy Masud, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Amal AlZahmi, Abderrahim Oulhaj
{"title":"A feature selection-based oblique hyperplane for oblique random survival forests.","authors":"Abubaker Suliman, Aminu S Abdullahi, Mohammad Mehedy Masud, Mohamed Adel Serhani, Amal AlZahmi, Abderrahim Oulhaj","doi":"10.1186/s12874-026-02817-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-026-02817-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":9114,"journal":{"name":"BMC Medical Research Methodology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.4,"publicationDate":"2026-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147442764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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