Evaluating statistical significance in a meta-analysis by using numerical integration
Meta-analysis is a method for enhancing statistical power through the integration of information from multiple studies. Various methods for integrating p-values (i.e., statistical significance), including Fisher’s method under an independence assumption, the permutation method, and the decorrelation...
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| author | Yin-Chun Lin Yu-Jen Liang Hsin-Chou Yang |
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| description | Meta-analysis is a method for enhancing statistical power through the integration of information from multiple studies. Various methods for integrating p-values (i.e., statistical significance), including Fisher’s method under an independence assumption, the permutation method, and the decorrelation method, have been broadly used in bioinformatics and computational biotechnology studies. However, these methods have limitations related to statistical assumption, computing efficiency, and accuracy of statistical significance estimation. In this study, we proposed a numerical integration method and examined its theoretical properties. Simulation studies were conducted to evaluate its Type I error, statistical power, computational efficiency, and estimation accuracy, and the results were compared with those of other methods. The results demonstrate that our proposed method performs well in terms of Type I error, statistical power, computing efficiency (regardless of sample size), and statistical significance estimation accuracy. P-value data from multiple large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) and transcriptome-wise association studies (TWASs) were analyzed. The results demonstrate that our proposed method can be used to identify critical genomic regions associated with rheumatoid arthritis and asthma, increase statistical significance in individual GWASs and TWASs, and control for false-positives more effectively than can Fisher’s method under an independence assumption. We created the software package Pbine, available at GitHub (https://github.com/Yinchun-Lin/Pbine). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-daea5564ed44418cafa51743cca5b5b12022-12-24T04:53:12ZengElsevierComputational and Structural Biotechnology Journal2001-03702022-01-012036153620Evaluating statistical significance in a meta-analysis by using numerical integrationYin-Chun Lin0Yu-Jen Liang1Hsin-Chou Yang2Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, TaiwanInstitute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, TaiwanInstitute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan; Biomedical Translation Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan; Institute of Statistics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 70101, Taiwan; Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 11221, Taiwan; Corresponding author at: Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, 128, Academia Road, Section 2 Nankang, Taipei 11529, Taiwan.Meta-analysis is a method for enhancing statistical power through the integration of information from multiple studies. Various methods for integrating p-values (i.e., statistical significance), including Fisher’s method under an independence assumption, the permutation method, and the decorrelation method, have been broadly used in bioinformatics and computational biotechnology studies. However, these methods have limitations related to statistical assumption, computing efficiency, and accuracy of statistical significance estimation. In this study, we proposed a numerical integration method and examined its theoretical properties. Simulation studies were conducted to evaluate its Type I error, statistical power, computational efficiency, and estimation accuracy, and the results were compared with those of other methods. The results demonstrate that our proposed method performs well in terms of Type I error, statistical power, computing efficiency (regardless of sample size), and statistical significance estimation accuracy. P-value data from multiple large-scale genome-wide association studies (GWASs) and transcriptome-wise association studies (TWASs) were analyzed. The results demonstrate that our proposed method can be used to identify critical genomic regions associated with rheumatoid arthritis and asthma, increase statistical significance in individual GWASs and TWASs, and control for false-positives more effectively than can Fisher’s method under an independence assumption. We created the software package Pbine, available at GitHub (https://github.com/Yinchun-Lin/Pbine).http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037022002677Meta-analysisP-value combinationFisher’s methodPermutationDecorrelationGenome-wide association study |
| spellingShingle | Yin-Chun Lin Yu-Jen Liang Hsin-Chou Yang Evaluating statistical significance in a meta-analysis by using numerical integration Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal Meta-analysis P-value combination Fisher’s method Permutation Decorrelation Genome-wide association study |
| title | Evaluating statistical significance in a meta-analysis by using numerical integration |
| title_full | Evaluating statistical significance in a meta-analysis by using numerical integration |
| title_fullStr | Evaluating statistical significance in a meta-analysis by using numerical integration |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating statistical significance in a meta-analysis by using numerical integration |
| title_short | Evaluating statistical significance in a meta-analysis by using numerical integration |
| title_sort | evaluating statistical significance in a meta analysis by using numerical integration |
| topic | Meta-analysis P-value combination Fisher’s method Permutation Decorrelation Genome-wide association study |
| url | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2001037022002677 |
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