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On the use of optimal transportation theory to recode variables and application to database merging

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To merge databases is a strategy of paramount interest especially in medical research. A common problem in this context comes from a variable which is not coded on the same scale in both databases we aim to merge. This paper considers the problem of finding a relevant way to re-code the variable in order to merge these two databases. To address this issue, an algorithm, based on optimal transportation theory, is proposed. Optimal transportation theory gives us an application to map the measure associated with the variable in database A to the measure associated with the same variable in database B. To do so, a cost function has to be introduced and an allocation rule has to be defined. Such a function and such a rule is proposed involving the information contained in the covariates. In this paper, the method is compared to multiple imputa-tion by chained equations and has demonstrated a better performance in 1 many situations. Applications on both simulated and real datasets show that the efficiency of the proposed merging algorithm depends on how the covariates are linked with the variable of interest.
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hal-01905857 , version 1 (26-10-2018)
hal-01905857 , version 2 (15-10-2019)

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Valérie Garès, Chloé Dimeglio, Grégory Guernec, Romain Fantin, Benoit Lepage, et al.. On the use of optimal transportation theory to recode variables and application to database merging. The international journal of biostatistics, 2020, 16 (1), pp.article number : 20180106. ⟨10.1515/ijb-2018-0106⟩. ⟨hal-01905857v2⟩
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