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1 Overview of Adaptive Design Methods in Clinical Trials |
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1.2 What is Adaptive Design? |
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Regulatory/Statistical Perspectives |
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1.3 Impact, Challenges, and Obstacles |
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Impact of Protocol Amendments |
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Challenges in By Design Adaptation |
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Obstacles of Retrospective Adaptations |
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1.5 Strategies for Clinical Development |
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Adaptive Design Strategies |
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2 Fundamental Theory of Adaptive Designs with Unplanned Design Change in Clinical Trials with Blinded Data |
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Statistical Considerations |
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3 Bayesian Approach for Adaptive Design |
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3.2 Bayesian Model Averaging Continual Reassessment Method |
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Continual Reassessment Method |
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Bayesian Model Averaging CRM |
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3.3 Jointly Modeling Toxicity and Efficacy in Phase I/II Design |
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3.4 Drug-Combination Trial |
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3.5 Adaptive Randomization with Drug Combinations |
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Bayesian Adaptive Randomization |
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Phase I/II Design in Drug-Combination Trials |
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4 The Impact of Protocol Amendments in Adaptive Trial Designs |
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4.2 Moving Target Patient Population |
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4.3 Statistical Inference with Covariate Adjustment |
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Approach with Fixed Covariate |
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Alternative Approach with Random Covariate |
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4.4 Inference Based on Mixture Distribution |
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The Case Where μActual is Random and σActual is Fixed |
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5 From Group Sequential to Adaptive Designs |
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5.2 The Canonical Joint Distribution of Test Statistics |
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5.3 Hypothesis Testing Problems and Decision Boundaries with Equally Spaced Looks |
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3 | (5) |
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One-Sided Tests with a Nonbinding Lower Boundary |
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5.4 Computations for Group Sequential Tests: Armitage's Iterated Integrals |
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5.5 Error Spending Procedures for Unequal, Unpredictable Increments of Information |
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5.6 P-Values and Confidence Intervals |
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A Confidence Interval on Termination |
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Repeated Confidence Intervals and Repeated P-Values |
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5.7 Optimal Group Sequential Procedures |
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Optimizing Within Classes of Group Sequential Procedures |
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Optimizing with Equally Spaced Information Levels |
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Optimizing Over Information Levels |
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Procedures with Data Dependent Increments in Information |
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5.8 Tests Permitting Flexible, Data Dependent Increments in Information |
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Flexible Redesign Protecting the Type I Error Probability |
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Efficiency of Flexible Adaptive Procedures |
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6 Determining Sample Size for Classical Designs |
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6 | (1) |
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6.2 The Hypothesis Testing Approach |
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Sample Size to Show Superiority of a Treatment |
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Sample Size for Studies to Show Noninferiority |
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Sample Size for Studies to Show Equivalence |
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Information-Based Approach to Sample Sizing |
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6.3 Other Approaches to Sample Sizing |
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Sample Sizing for Dual Criteria |
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Prespecifying Desirable Posterior False-Positive and False-Negative Probabilities |
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Assurance for Confirmatory Trials |
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Reducing Sample Size Due to Efficiency Gain in an Adjusted Analysis |
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7 Sample Size Reestimation Design with Applications in Clinical Trials |
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7.1 Flexible Sample Size Design |
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7.2 Sample Size Reestimation |
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7.3 Measure of Adaptive Performance |
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7.4 Performance Comparison |
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8 Adaptive Interim Analyses in Clinical Trials |
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8 | (1) |
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8.2 Confirmatory Adaptive Designs |
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8.3 Most Relevant Types of Adaptations |
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Adaptive Sample Size Recalculation |
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Confirmatory Adaptive Designs in Multiarmed Trials |
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Patient Enrichment Designs |
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9 Classical Dose-Finding Trial |
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9.1 Background and Clinical Development Plan |
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9.2 Dose-Finding in Oncology |
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Example: A Traditional 3+3 Design |
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9.5 Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic |
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9.6 Clinical Trial Simulations |
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9.7 Confirmation Versus Exploration |
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9.8 Selection of Type I and Type II Error |
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9.9 Analysis of Dose-Finding Trials: The MCP-Mod Method |
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9.10 Range of Doses to be Studied |
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9.11 Other Types of Design |
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Optional Titration (Placebo-Controlled Titration to Endpoint) |
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9.12 Example: A True Case Study in Osteoarthritis (OA) |
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10 Improving Dose-Finding: A Philosophic View |
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10.2 Traditional Dose-Finding: Can it be Improved? |
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Traditional Design of a Phase IIB Dose-Finding Study |
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10.3 Simple Examples of Optimal and Adaptive Designs |
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An Example of a Fully Adaptive Design |
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10.4 More on Optimal and Adaptive Designs |
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12 | (2) |
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10.5 Dose-Finding: A Trade-Off Between Efficacy and Safety |
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14 | (3) |
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Designing Phase IIB with the Big Picture in Mind |
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Dose Information from Confirmatory Phase |
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Adaptive Dose Selection in Phase III |
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10.7 Summary and Discussion |
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11 Adaptive Dose-Ranging Studies |
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11.2 Dose-Ranging Studies |
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Main Objectives of a Dose-Ranging Study |
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Multiple Comparison Procedures |
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11.3 Adaptive Analysis of Dose-Ranging Studies |
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Combining Multiple Comparisons and Modeling into an Adaptive Analysis Approach |
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11.4 Adaptive Design of Dose-Ranging Studies |
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Adaptively Designed Dose-Ranging Studies |
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12 Seamless Phase I/II Designs |
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12 | (1) |
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12.3 Dose-Response Models |
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Cox Bivariate Binary Model |
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Continuation-Ratio Bivariate Binary Model |
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Models Based on Bivariate Discrete Distributions |
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13 Phase II/III Seamless Designs |
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13.2 General Considerations for Designing a Seamless Phase I/III Study |
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13.3 Sample Sizes in Seamless Phase II/III Trials |
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13.6 Case Study, Seamless Adaptive Designs in Respiratory Disease |
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14 Sample Size Estimation/Allocation for Two-Stage Seamless Adaptive Trial Designs |
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14.2 Two-Stage Adaptive Seamless Design |
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Definition and Characteristics |
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14.3 Sample Size Calculation/Allocation |
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Continuous Study Endpoints |
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14.4 Major Obstacles and Challenges |
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Instability of Sample Size |
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Moving Patient Population |
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15 Optimal Response-Adaptive Randomization for Clinical Trials |
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15 | (1) |
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Randomization in Clinical Trials |
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Balance, Ethics, and Efficiency |
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Response-Adaptive Randomization |
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Optimal Allocation for Covariate-Adjusted Response-Adaptive Randomization |
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The Doubly Biased Coin Design Procedures |
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Efficient Randomized Adaptive Design (ERADE) |
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Performance Evaluation of Optimal Response-Adaptive Randomization Procedures |
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16 Hypothesis-Adaptive Design |
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16.2 Definitions and Notions |
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16.3 Global Tests with Adaptive Designs |
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The Closure Test for Adaptive Designs |
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Reduction of the Set of Initial Hypotheses |
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A Priori Ordered Hypotheses |
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Inclusion of New Hypotheses |
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16.7 How Much Freedom Should be Allowed? |
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Logical Relations of Hypotheses |
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Correlations of Test Statistics |
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Confidence Intervals and Point Estimates |
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17 Treatment Adaptive Allocations in Randomized Clinical Trials: An Overview |
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17.2 Requirements of an Allocation Design: A Clinician's Perspective |
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17.3 Treatment Adaptive Allocations: Without Covariates |
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17.4 Treatment Adaptive Allocations: With Covariates |
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Covariate-Adaptive Randomization |
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18 Integration of Predictive Biomarker Diagnostics into Clinical Trials for New Drug Development |
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18.3 Development of Predictive Biomarkers |
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18.4 Phase II Designs for Oncology Trials |
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18.5 Clinical Trial Designs Incorporating Predictive Biomarkers |
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18.7 Designs that Include Both Test Positive and Test Negative Patients |
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Analysis of Test Negatives Contingent on Significance in Test Positives |
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Analysis Determined by Interaction Test |
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18.8 Adaptively Modifying Types of Patients Accrued |
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18.9 Biomarker Adaptive Threshold Design |
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18.10 Multiple Biomarker Design |
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18.11 Adaptive Signature Design |
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19 Clinical Strategy for Study Endpoint Selection |
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19.2 Model Formulation and Assumptions |
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19.3 Comparison of the Different Clinical Strategies |
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Results for Test Statistics, Power, and Sample Size Determination |
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Determination of the Noninferiority Margin |
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Absolute difference Versus Relative difference |
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Responders' Rate Based on Absolute Difference |
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Responders' Rate Based on Absolute Difference |
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20 Adaptive Infrastructure |
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20 | (1) |
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20.1 Implementation of Randomization Changes |
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Approaches to Implementation of Randomization Changes |
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Possible Pitfalls and Considerations |
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20.2 Maintaining the Invisibility of Design Changes |
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Invisibility of Changes to Site Personnel |
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Invisibility of Changes to Sponsor Personnel |
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20.3 Drug Supply Considerations |
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20.4 Drug Supply Management |
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20.5 Rapid Access to Response Data |
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How Clean Should the Data be? |
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20.6 Data Monitoring Committees, the Independent Statistician and Sponsor Involvement |
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Monitoring for Adaptive Designs |
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20.7 Sample Size Reestimation |
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Operational Considerations |
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21 Independent Data Monitoring Committees |
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21.2 Overview of Data Monitoring Committees |
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Scope of Responsibilities |
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Setting Statistical Boundaries |
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21.3 Adaptive Trials and the Need for Data Monitoring |
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21.4 DMC Issues Specific to Adaptive Trials |
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Composition of the Committee |
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Need for Sponsor Involvement |
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Potential for Adaptive Decisions to Unblind |
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22 Targeted Clinical Trials |
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22 | (1) |
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22.2 Examples of Targeted Clinical Trials |
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22.3 Inaccuracy of Diagnostic Devices for Molecular Targets |
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22.4 Inference for Treatment Under Enrichment Design |
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22.5 Discussion and Concluding Remarks |
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23 Functional Genome-Wide Association Studies of Longitudinal Traits |
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23.2 Why fGWAS: A Must-Tell Story |
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A Statistical Perspective |
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23.3 A Statistical Framework for fGWAS |
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Modeling the Mean Vectors |
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Modeling the Covariance Structure |
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23.4 High-Dimensional Models for fGWAS |
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Multiple Longitudinal Variables and Time-to-Events |
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Multiple Genetic Control Mechanisms |
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24 Adaptive Trial Simulation |
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24.1 Clinical Trial Simulation |
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Type-I Error Control, p-Value and Power |
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Selection of Test Statistics |
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Method for Stopping Boundary Determination |
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24.3 Method Based on the Sum of p-Values |
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24.4 Method Based on Product of p-Values |
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24.5 Method with Inverse-Normal p-Values |
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24.6 Probability of Efficacy |
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24.7 Design Evaluation: Operating Characteristics |
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Expected Duration of an Adaptive Trial |
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Conditional Power and Futility Index |
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24.8 Sample-Size Reestimation |
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25 Efficiency of Adaptive Designs |
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25.2 Efficiency of Nuisance Parameter-Based Sample Size Reestimation Methods |
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25.3 Efficiency of Group-Sequential Designs and Effect-Based Sample Size Reestimation |
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Methodology for Sequential Designs |
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Methodology for Adaptive Designs with Effect-Based Sample Size Reestimation |
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Efficiency of Group-Sequential and Adaptive Designs Compared to Fixed Sample Size Tests |
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Comparison of Different Adaptive Design Approaches |
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25.4 Efficiency of Methods for Treatment and Subgroup Selection |
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25.5 Efficiency Evaluation in Practice |
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26 Case Studies in Adaptive Design |
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26.2 Some Concerns on Types of Design Adaptation |
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Changes Between Superiority and Noninferiority |
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Selection of Patient Subgroups Based on Interim Results |
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27 Good Practices for Adaptive Clinical Trials |
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27.2 General Considerations and Motivation for Using an Adaptive Design |
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27.3 Scope of Adaptations in Confirmatory Trials |
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27.4 Interim Monitoring Practices in Adaptive Trials |
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27.5 Other Trial Integrity Concerns for Adaptive Trials |
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27.6 Consistency of Results Within Adaptive Trials |
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Index |
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