Fig. 2: Existing methods comparison. | npj Digital Medicine

Fig. 2: Existing methods comparison.

From: Distributed learning for heterogeneous clinical data with application to integrating COVID-19 data across 230 sites

Fig. 2

Comparisons between pooled analysis, meta-analysis, iterative distributed algorithms, and the proposed method. The proposed method can retain high accuracy when estimating association between exposures and outcome of interest. In addition, the proposed method can handle heterogeneity across the sites and protect patient privacy with efficient communication.

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