Preface to the Third Edition |
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Preface to the Second Edition |
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Preface to the First Edition |
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Acknowledgements |
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1.2 The Role of Statistics in Drug Development |
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1.3 The Object of this Book |
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1.4 The Author's Knowledge of Statistics in Drug Development |
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1.5 The Reader and Her or His Knowledge of Statistics |
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Part 1 Four Views of Statistics in Drug Development: Historical, Methodological, Technical and Professional |
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2 A Brief and Superficial History of Statistics for Drug Developers |
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2.3 James Bernoulli (1654-1705) |
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2.4 John Arbuthnott (1667-1753) |
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2.5 The Mathematics of Probability in the Late Seventeenth, the Eighteenth, and Early Nineteenth Centuries |
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2.6 Thomas Bayes (1701-1761) |
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2.7 Adolphe Quetelet (1796-1874) |
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2.8 George Biddell Airy (1801-1892) |
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2.9 Francis Galton (1822-1911) |
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2.10 Karl Pearson (1857-1936) |
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2.11 'Student' (1876-1937) |
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2.12 R.A. Fisher (1890-1962) |
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2.13 Modern Mathematical Statistics |
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2.15 Statistics in Clinical Trials Today |
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3 Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials as Seen by a Statistician |
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3.4 Practical Problems in Using the Counterfactual Argument |
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3.5 Regression to the Mean |
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3.6 Control in Clinical Trials |
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3.9 Using Concomitant Observations |
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3.10 Measuring Treatment Effects |
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3.11 Data Generation Models |
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4 Probability, Bayes, P-values, Tests of Hypotheses and Confidence Intervals |
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4.4 The Bayesian Solution to the Example |
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4.5 Why Don't We Regularly Use the Bayesian Approach in Clinical Trials? |
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4.6 A Frequentist Approach |
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4.7 Hypothesis Testing in Controlled Clinical Trials |
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4.8 Significance Tests and P-values |
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4.9 Confidence Intervals and Limits and Credible Intervals |
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4.10 Some Bayesian Criticism of the Frequentist Approach |
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5 The Work of the Pharmaceutical Statistician |
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5.5 The Statistician's Role in Planning the Protocol |
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5.6 Sample Size Determination |
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5.7 Other Important Design Issues |
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5.9 Data Collection Preview |
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5.10 Performing the Trial |
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5.11 Data Analysis Preview |
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5.12 Analysis and Reporting |
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5.14 Statistical Research |
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Part 2 Statistical Issues: Debatable and Controversial Topics in Drug Development |
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6 Allocating Treatments to Patients in Clinical Trials |
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7 Baselines and Covariate Information |
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8 The Measurement of Treatment Effects |
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9 Demographic Subgroups: Representation and Analysis |
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11 Intention-to-Treat, Missing Data and Related Matters |
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12 One-Sided and Two-Sided Tests and Other Issues to Do with Significance and P-values |
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13 Determining the Sample Size |
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15 Active Control Equivalence Studies |
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19 Sequential and Flexible Trials |
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21 Concerning Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics |
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22 Bioequivalence Studies |
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23 Safety Data, Harms, Drug Monitoring and Pharmaco-Epidemiology |
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24 Pharmaco-economics and Portfolio Management |
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25 Concerning Pharmacogenetics, Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Medicine |
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Glossary |
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Index |
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