Testing and estimating model-adjusted effect-measure modification using marginal structural models and complex survey data.
Recently, it has been shown how to estimate model-adjusted risks, risk differences, and risk ratios from complex survey data based on risk averaging and SUDAAN (Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina). The authors present an alternative approach based on marginal structural models (MSMs) and SAS (SAS Institute, Inc., Cary, North Carolina). The authors estimate the parameters of the MSM using inverse weights that are the product of 2 terms. The first term is a survey weight that adjusts the sample to represent the unstandardized population. The second term is an inverse-probability-of-exposure weight that standardizes the population in order to adjust for confounding; it must be estimated using the survey weights. The authors show how to use the MSM parameter estimates and contrasts to test and estimate effect-measure modification; SAS code is provided. They also explain how to program the previous risk-averaging approach in SAS. The 2 methods are applied and compared using data from the 2007 Florida Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Survey to assess effect modification by age of the difference in risk of cost barriers to health care between persons with disability and persons without disability.
Brumback
Babette A
BA
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Florida, Gainesville, 32610-0231, USA. brumback@ufl.edu
Bouldin
Erin D
ED
Zheng
Hao W
HW
Cannell
Michael B
MB
Andresen
Elena M
EM
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D005431:Florida; D006306:Health Surveys; D006801:Humans; D016015:Logistic Models; D008432:Mathematical Computing; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D016017:Odds Ratio; D012107:Research Design; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012494:Sampling Studies
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