Analyzing zero-inflated clustered longitudinal ordinal outcomes using GEE-type models with an application to dental fluorosis studies

Shoumi Sarkar; Anish Mukherjee; Jeremy Gaskins; Steven Levy; Peihua Qiu; Somnath Datta

doi:10.48550/arxiv.2412.11348

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Analyzing zero-inflated clustered longitudinal ordinal outcomes using GEE-type models with an application to dental fluorosis studies

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Analyzing zero-inflated clustered longitudinal ordinal outcomes using GEE-type models with an application to dental fluorosis studies

Shoumi Sarkar, Anish Mukherjee, Jeremy Gaskins, Steven Levy, Peihua Qiu and Somnath Datta

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Cornell University

12/15/2024

DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.11348

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Motivated by the Iowa Fluoride Study (IFS) dataset, which comprises zero-inflated multi-level ordinal responses on tooth fluorosis, we develop an estimation scheme leveraging generalized estimating equations (GEEs) and James-Stein shrinkage. Previous analyses of this cohort study primarily focused on caries (count response) or employed a Bayesian approach to the ordinal fluorosis outcome. This study is based on the expanded dataset that now includes observations for age 23, whereas earlier works were restricted to ages 9, 13, and/or 17 according to the participants' ages at the time of measurement. The adoption of a frequentist perspective enhances the interpretability to a broader audience. Over a choice of several covariance structures, separate models are formulated for the presence (zero versus non-zero score) and severity (non-zero ordinal scores) of fluorosis, which are then integrated through shared regression parameters. This comprehensive framework effectively identifies risk or protective effects of dietary and non-dietary factors on dental fluorosis.

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Title: Subtitle: Analyzing zero-inflated clustered longitudinal ordinal outcomes using GEE-type models with an application to dental fluorosis studies
Creators: Shoumi Sarkar
Anish Mukherjee
Jeremy Gaskins
Steven Levy
Peihua Qiu
Somnath Datta
Resource Type: Preprint
Publication Details: ArXiV.org
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2412.11348
ISSN: 2331-8422
Publisher: Cornell University; Ithaca, New York
Language: English
Date posted: 12/15/2024
Academic Unit: Preventive and Community Dentistry; Epidemiology
Record Identifier: 9984757687002771

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