On sample size calculation based on odds ratio in clinical trials.

abstract：:Some statistical methods applied to in vitro diagnostic tests for the three primary indications (screening, diagnosis, and monitoring) are discussed. Various examples with practical statistical applications are presented, including test for k by k ordered categorical matched-pair data for screening of cervical cancer,...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Lao CS

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bayesian sequential integration is an appealing approach in drug development, as it allows to recursively update posterior distributions as soon as new data become available, thus considerably reducing the computation time. However, preclinical trials are often characterized by small sample sizes, which may affect the...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： La Gamba F,Jacobs T,Serroyen J,Geys H,Faes C

更新日期：2020-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Administration of biological therapeutics can generate undesirable immune responses that may induce anti-drug antibodies (ADAs). Immunogenicity can negatively affect patients, ranging from mild reactive effect to hypersensitivity reactions or even serious autoimmune diseases. Assessment of immunogenicity is critical a...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Zhang J,Yu B,Zhang L,Roskos L,Richman L,Yang H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group sequential methods to allow the possibility of early termination of a trial due to sufficiently convincing results are a standard in therapeutic clinical trials but have been little considered in bioequivalence trials. We investigate the statistical properties of one group sequential approach to bioequivalence t...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Hauck WW,Preston PE,Bois FY

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose an adaptive two-stage dose-response design where a prespecified adaptation rule is used to add and/or drop treatment arms between the stages. We extend the multiple comparison procedures-modeling (MCP-Mod) approach into a two-stage design. In each stage, we use the same set of candidate dose-response models...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Franchetti Y,Anderson SJ,Sampson AR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Log-odds ratio for 2 × 2 contingency tables is often approximated by a normal distribution with an approximated variance. Hwang and Biswas (2008) illustrated that the standard expression for the variance should be modified in the presence of correlation. They also provided an adjustment to this variance expression...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Biswas A,Hwang JS

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For approval of generic drugs, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires the evidence of bioequivalence in average bioavailability be provided. This is based on the Fundmental Bioequivalence Assumption from FDA that if two drug products are shown to be bioequivalent, it is assumed that they are therapeutica...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Lu Y,Zhang ZZ,Chow SC

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, development of biosimilar products has attracted considerable attention. Because of the structural complexity of biologics, it is difficult to demonstrate that a biosimilar product is identical to the reference product. Therefore, for the development of biosimilar products, we need to adopt an approac...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Nagasaki M,Ando Y

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article deals with seven special issues related to the assumptions, applicability, and practical use of formulas for calculating power or sample size, respectively, for comparative clinical trials with time-to-event endpoints, with particular focus on the well-known Freedman and Schoenfeld methods. All problems a...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Abel UR,Jensen K,Karapanagiotou-Schenkel I,Kieser M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Laboratory data with a lower quantification limit (censored data) are sometimes analyzed by replacing non-quantifiable values with a single value equal to or less than the quantification limit, yielding possibly biased point estimates and variance estimates that are too small. Motivated by a three-period, three-treatm...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Karon JM,Wiegand RE,van de Wijgert JH,Kilmarx PH

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The concept of quality by design (QbD) as published in ICH-Q8 is currently one of the most recurrent topics in the pharmaceutical literature. This guideline recommends the use of information and prior knowledge gathered during pharmaceutical development studies to provide a scientific rationale for the manufacturing p...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Lebrun P,Giacoletti K,Scherder T,Rozet E,Boulanger B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exact overall significance levels for selected sample sizes and response probabilities are graphically displayed when a dichotomous variable is compared between a placebo and two or more active treatments. A Z-statistic with a pooled variance estimator is used as the test statistic and critical values are based on the...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Whaley FS

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this article is to propose a multilevel combined model for repeated, hierarchical, and overdispersed time-to-event outcomes, extending the so-called combined model proposed by Molenberghs et al. (2010), and using three different estimation strategies: full likelihood, pseudo-likelihood, and Bayesian estimat...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Efendi A,Molenberghs G

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:I review the designs available for Phase I dose-finding studies of chemotherapeutic agents in cancer patients. The designs are based on the assumption that both efficacy and toxicity increase with dose, and thus attempt to minimize the number of patients treated at low doses, and also to minimize the chance that patie...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Potter DM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An adaptive enrichment design is a randomized trial that allows enrollment criteria to be modified at interim analyses, based on a preset decision rule. When there is prior uncertainty regarding treatment effect heterogeneity, these trial designs can provide improved power for detecting treatment effects in subpopulat...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Fisher A,Rosenblum M,Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative.

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are minimal standards for the processing of whole blood components, and to apply those standards requires a system of quality assurances. Excessive indications of failures in compliance trigger inspections and other remedial actions, but the demarcation of what is excessive is a critical issue. Issues of low vol...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Lachenbruch PA,Foulkes MA,Williams AE,Epstein JS

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four multidose animal carcinogenicity assay trend test procedures based on the chi-square, Hoel-Walburg, log-rank, and Peto procedures are compared under conditions of competing risks. A total of 42 different risk populations are simulated in which a simulated animal can contract one or more of five different tumor ty...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Graves TS

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Historical control trials (HCTs) are frequently conducted to compare an experimental treatment with a control treatment from a previous study, when they are applicable and favored over a randomized clinical trial (RCT) due to feasibility, ethics and cost concerns. Makuch and Simon developed a sample size formula for h...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Zhu H,Zhang S,Ahn C

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In various pharmaceutical applications, repeated measurements are taken from each subject, and model parameters are estimated from the collected data. Examples include dose response modeling and PK/PD studies with serial blood sampling, among others. The quality of the information in an experiment is reflected in the ...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Gagnon R,Leonov S

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A statistic, W, for measuring change from baseline is developed. Its distribution is found. Simulations using W and analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) are run and the results are compared. W is found to be less powerful than ANCOVA, yet is not seen to suffer some of the ill effects to which ANCOVA can fall prey, namely b...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Donahue RM

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacokinetic studies of drug and metabolite concentrations in the blood are usually conducted as crossover trials, especially in phases I and II. A longitudinal series of measurements is collected on each subject within each period. However, much of the dependence among such observations, within and between periods...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Lindsey JK,Wang J,Byrom WD,Jones B

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we show how to estimate a transition period for the evolvement of drug resistance to antiretroviral (ARV) drug or other related treatments in the framework of developing a Bayesian method for jointly analyzing time-to-event and longitudinal data. For HIV/AIDS longitudinal data, developmental trajector...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Dagne GA

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, a parametric sequential test is proposed under the Weibull model. The proposed test is asymptotically normal with an independent increment structure. The sample size for a fixed sample test is derived for the purpose of group sequential trial design. In addition, a multi-stage group sequential procedu...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Wu J,Xiong X

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The design of a three-arm trial including the experimental treatment, an active reference treatment, and a placebo is recommended as a useful approach to the assessment of noninferiority of the experimental treatment. The inclusion of the placebo arm enables the assessment of assay sensitivity and internal validation,...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Hida E,Tango T

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We study the statistical efficiency for rising-dose designs in the context of first-in-human studies. Specifically, we identify a class of crossover designs that are appealing in terms of both subject safety and statistical efficiency and, for a three-period, two-panel design in such a class, we compare its A-efficien...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Yan Z,Hosmane B,Locke C

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-related side effects are one of the leading causes of death and illness in the developed world. Finding genes that modify drug response has the potential to significantly improve drug delivery, by identifying both individuals that can benefit from therapy and those at increased risk of harm. We present a simple a...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： He M,Allen A

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We assess the QT effect using an exposure-response model in a "thorough QT/QTc study" with a four-period crossover design in which the treatments are placebo, positive control, higher dose of investigational drug, and therapeutic dose of investigational drug. In the study, QTc interval values and the drug concentratio...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Hosmane B,Locke C,Chiu YL

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmaceutical product development culminates in confirmatory trials whose evidence for the product's efficacy and safety supports regulatory approval for marketing. Regulatory agencies in countries whose patients were not included in the confirmatory trials often require confirmation of efficacy and safety in their p...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Gould AL,Jin T,Zhang LX,Wang WW

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ratio of means (ROM) and difference of means (DOM) are often used in a superiority, noninferiority (NI), or average bioequivalence (ABE) test to evaluate whether the test mean is superior, NI, or equivalent to the reference (placebo or active control) mean. The literature provides recommendations regarding how to choo...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Sun W,Grosser S,Tsong Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For administrative convenience or cost efficiency, we may often employ a cluster randomized trial (CRT), in which randomized units are clusters of patients rather than individual patients. Furthermore, because of ethical reasons or patient's decision, it is not uncommon to encounter data in which there are patients no...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Lui KJ,Chang KC

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00