Bias due to coarsening of time intervals in the inference for the effectiveness of colorectal cancer screening.

Bikram KarmakarAnn G ZauberAnne I HahnYan Kwan LauChyke A DoubeniMarshall M Joffe

Published in: International journal of epidemiology (2024)

The proposed method can inform future studies of screening effectiveness, especially for CRC, by determining the choice of interval lengths where data are discretized to minimize bias due to coarsening while balancing computational costs.

Keyphrases

colorectal cancer screening
randomized controlled trial
systematic review
single cell
current status
case control
machine learning
decision making
data analysis