An open‐source implementation of tree‐based scan statistics

Author:

Russo Massimiliano12ORCID,Wang Shirley V.2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Statistics The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio USA

2. Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics Brigham and Women's Hospital Boston Massachusetts USA

Abstract

AbstractPurposeWe develop an open‐source R package to implement tree‐based scan statistics (TBSS) analyses.MethodsTBSS are data mining methods used by the United States Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control. They simultaneously screen thousands of hierarchically aggregated outcomes to identify unsuspected adverse effects of drugs or vaccines, accounting for multiple comparisons. The general structure of TBSS is highly adaptable, with four essential components: (1) a hierarchical outcome structure, (2) a test statistic to be computed for each element of the hierarchy, (3) an algorithm to generate data replicates under a null distribution, and (4) observed outcomes at the lower level of the hierarchy. We encode the general TBSS framework in a convenient R package that offers user‐friendly functions for the most used TBSS methods. To illustrate the performance of our software, we evaluated two examples of archetypical TBSS analyses previously analyzed using proprietary, closed‐source TreeScan™ software. The first considers the risk of congenital malformations associated with first‐trimester exposure to valproate, and the second compares exposure to newly prescribed canagliflozin with a dipeptidyl peptidase 4 inhibitor in adults affected by type 2 diabetes.ResultsThe results of the original studies are replicated.ConclusionsThe diffusion of an open‐source implementation of TBSS can enhance innovation of TBSS methods and foster collaborations. We offer an intuitive R package implementing standard TBSS methods with accompanying tutorials. Our unified object‐oriented implementation allows expert users to extend the framework, introduce new features, or enhance existing ones.

Publisher

Wiley

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