Estimating vaccine efficacy from outbreak size household data in the presence of heterogeneous transmission probabilities.

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：:We consider the problem of estimating a biomarker-based subgroup and testing for treatment effect in the overall population and in the subgroup after the trial. We define the best subgroup as the subgroup that maximizes the power for comparing the experimental treatment with the control. In the case of continuous outc...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Joshi N,Fine J,Chu R,Ivanova A

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Noninferiority multiregional clinical trials (MRCTs) have recently received increasing attention in drug development. While a major goal in an MRCT is to estimate the global treatment effect, it is also important to assess the consistency of treatment effects across multiple regions. In this paper, we propose an intui...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Diao G,Zeng D,Ibrahim JG,Rong A,Lee O,Zhang K,Chen Q

更新日期：2017-01-01 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：:The purpose of the research is to develop a statistical decision support algorithm for patients who may benefit from Adjuvant Cisplatin/Vinorelbine (ACT) and improve their survival rates. Genome-wide microarray data are used to identify feasible sets of genes and probe sets that constitute the gene signature. The data...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Moon H,Chao T,Ahn H

更新日期：2020-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, a design was proposed for the Simultaneous Global Drug Development Program (SGDDP) to assess the impact of ethnic factors on the effect of a new treatment for a targeted ethnic (TE) population. It used weighted Z tests to combine the information collected from the TE and non-TE (NTE) subgroups in the SGDDP b...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Liu K,Yuan Z,Chen G,Huang Q,Wenrich J

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney (WMW) test is the most commonly used nonparametric method to compare two treatments when the underlying distribution of the outcome variable is not normally distributed. In the presence of stratum effects, the van Elteren (vE) test, a stratified WMW test, can be used to adjust for the stratum...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Qu Y,Zhao YD,Rahardja D

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assessment of quality of life (QOL) in clinical trials becomes a challenging task from the viewpoint of clinical biostatistics. The responses of the items for measuring QOL indices usually vary widely from patient to patient and from time to time. Measurement errors might be present in the responses of the items, and ...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Siddiqui O,Ali MW

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a clinical dose finding study with active control a new drug with several dose levels is compared with an active comparator drug. The main focus of such studies often lies on the estimation of a target dose that leads to the same efficacy as the control. This article investigates the finite sample properties of the...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Helms HJ,Benda N,Friede T

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As more biologic products are going off patent protection, the development of follow-on biologics products has received much attention from both biotechnology industry and the regulatory agencies. Unlike small-molecule drug products, the development of biologic products is very different and variable via the manufactu...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Hsieh TC,Chow SC,Liu JP,Hsiao CF,Chi E

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：:Although asymptotically, the empirical covariance estimator is consistent and robust with respect to the selection of the working correlation matrix, when the sample size is small, its bias may not be negligible. This article proposes a small sample correction for the empirical covariance estimator in general Gaussian...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Fan C,Zhang D,Zhang CH

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The problem of testing treatment difference in the occurrence of a study endpoint in a randomized parallel-group comparative clinical trial with repeated responses under the assumption that the responses follow a bivariate zero-inflated Poisson (ZIP) distribution is considered. Likelihood ratio test for homogeneity of...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Yuen HK,Chow SC,Tse SK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonparametric methods are presented for the analysis of the two-treatment, two-period crossover design with multivariate response. After forming within-subject sums and differences, the usual tests, including those for carry-over effects and direct treatment effects, can be constructed using a multivariate analysis of...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Johnson WD,Grender JM

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Youden index, a main summary index for the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve, is a comprehensive measurement for the effectiveness of a diagnostic test. For a continuous-scale diagnostic test, the optimal cut point for positive disease is the cut point leading to the maximization of the sum of sensitiv...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Zhou H,Qin G

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:According to ICH Q6A (1999), a specification is defined as a list of tests, references to analytical procedures, and appropriate acceptance criteria, which are numerical limits, ranges, or other criteria for the tests described. For drug products, specifications usually consist of test methods and acceptance criteria ...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Dong X,Tsong Y,Shen M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this paper I consider a problem of identifying all effective and superior drug combinations. I formulate this problem in terms of a family of hypotheses and propose a two-stage method to solve it. The first stage uses individual p-values obtained via the Min tests, whereas Holm's approach is employed in the second ...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Soulakova JN

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In literature, there are a few unified approaches to test proof of concept and estimate a target dose, including the multiple comparison procedure using modeling approach, and the permutation approach proposed by Klingenberg. We discuss and compare the operating characteristics of these unified approaches and further ...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Tang Y,Cai C,Sun L,He J

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We provide a set of formulas that allow the combination of separately performed analyses of population pharmacokinetic (PK) studies, without any further computational effort. More specifically, given the point estimates and uncertainties of two population PK analyses, the formulas provide the point estimates and uncer...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Dokoumetzidis A,Aarons L

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In clinical trials, it is important to set up a design to reach a decision on effectiveness of a drug in treating a disease with the loss of the minimum number of patients. Group sequential designs are very beneficial on this point. However, the proportional hazards assumption must hold to work under a group sequentia...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Demirhan H,Demirhan YP,Bacanli S

更新日期：2013-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:When marketed lots of pharmaceutical products produce a number of out-of-specification (OOS) samples, it can be very disruptive. In some cases such lots must be recalled, at substantial expense. We present a model of the probability of OOS samples and show quantitatively how this probability depends on the underlying ...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Fairweather WR

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We address the issue of analysis of clinical data generated by the bridging study conducted in the new region to evaluate the similarity for extrapolation of the foreign clinical data. A bridging study is usually conducted in the new region only after the test product is approved for commercial marketing in the origin...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Liu JP,Hsiao CF,Hsueh H

更新日期：2002-08-01 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：: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：:Receptor occupancy (RO) PET is a non-invasive way to determine drug on target. Given the complexity of procedures, long acquisition times, and high cost, ligand displacement imaging trials often have a limited size and produce sparse RO results over the time course of the blocking drug. To take the best advantage of t...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Vandenhende F,Renard D,Nie Y,Kumar A,Miller J,Tauscher J,Witcher J,Zhou Y,Wong DF

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical trials often use a binary "fold increase" endpoint defined according to the ratio of interval-censored measurement at end-of-study to that at baseline. We propose a simple yet principled analytic approach based on the linear mixed-effects model for interval-censored data for the analysis of such paired measur...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Xu Y,Lam KF,Ooi EE,Wilder-Smith A,Paton NI,Lee LS,Cheung YB

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A common question in clinical studies is how to use historical data from earlier studies, leveraging relevant information into the design and analysis of a new study. Bayesian approaches are particularly well-suited to this task, with their natural ability to borrow strength across data sources. In this paper, we prop...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Li JX,Chen WC,Scott JA

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many clinical trials for chronic conditions a run-in period is used prior to randomization. Often, only those participants who meet certain criteria during the run-in phase go on to get randomized. The others, along with the information that they might have provided, are excluded from the study. This exclusion of t...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Berger VW,Vali B

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly clustered count data are commonly seen in medical device clinical studies such as cardiac rhythm management. For instance, anti-arrhythmia shocks delivered from an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) often occur as "storms", i.e., multiple shocks within a short period of time. There are unique challeng...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Wang ZJ

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00