tern (version 0.9.8)

h_response_biomarkers_subgroups: Helper functions for tabulating biomarker effects on binary response by subgroup

Description

Helper functions which are documented here separately to not confuse the user when reading about the user-facing functions.

Usage

h_rsp_to_logistic_variables(variables, biomarker)
h_logistic_mult_cont_df(variables, data, control = control_logistic())

Value

• h_rsp_to_logistic_variables() returns a named list of elements response, arm, covariates, and strata.

• h_logistic_mult_cont_df() returns a data.frame containing estimates and statistics for the selected biomarkers.

Arguments

variables

(named list of string)
list of additional analysis variables.

biomarker

(string)
the name of the biomarker variable.

data

(data.frame)
the dataset containing the variables to summarize.

control

(named list)
controls for the response definition and the confidence level produced by control_logistic().

Functions

• h_rsp_to_logistic_variables(): helps with converting the "response" function variable list to the "logistic regression" variable list. The reason is that currently there is an inconsistency between the variable names accepted by extract_rsp_subgroups() and fit_logistic().

• h_logistic_mult_cont_df(): prepares estimates for number of responses, patients and overall response rate, as well as odds ratio estimates, confidence intervals and p-values, for multiple biomarkers in a given single data set. variables corresponds to names of variables found in data, passed as a named list and requires elements rsp and biomarkers (vector of continuous biomarker variables) and optionally covariates and strata.

Examples

library(dplyr)
library(forcats)

adrs <- tern_ex_adrs
adrs_labels <- formatters::var_labels(adrs)

adrs_f <- adrs %>%
  filter(PARAMCD == "BESRSPI") %>%
  mutate(rsp = AVALC == "CR")
formatters::var_labels(adrs_f) <- c(adrs_labels, "Response")

# This is how the variable list is converted internally.
h_rsp_to_logistic_variables(
  variables = list(
    rsp = "RSP",
    covariates = c("A", "B"),
    strata = "D"
  ),
  biomarker = "AGE"
)

# For a single population, estimate separately the effects
# of two biomarkers.
df <- h_logistic_mult_cont_df(
  variables = list(
    rsp = "rsp",
    biomarkers = c("BMRKR1", "AGE"),
    covariates = "SEX"
  ),
  data = adrs_f
)
df

# If the data set is empty, still the corresponding rows with missings are returned.
h_coxreg_mult_cont_df(
  variables = list(
    rsp = "rsp",
    biomarkers = c("BMRKR1", "AGE"),
    covariates = "SEX",
    strata = "STRATA1"
  ),
  data = adrs_f[NULL, ]
)