Bayesian statistics in medical devices: innovation sparked by the FDA.

abstract：:Pressures for rapid drug development, especially for treatments that may affect public health significantly, drive a need to reconsider what is necessary to establish the "substantial evidence" of efficacy and safety required for regulatory approval. The concept of substantial evidence of effect can be stated fairly s...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Gould AL

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is proposed for the estimation of drug or toxicity potencies using in vitro data. A typical experiment in cancer research is presented where cells from a tumor-derived cell line were deposited as fixed volumes in 12-well cell culture plates. After waiting for 72 hours (for further growth), the wells were expo...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Le Chap T,Grambsch PM,Liu A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In clinical trials, selection of appropriate study endpoints is critical for an accurate and reliable evaluation of safety and effectiveness of a test treatment under investigation. In practice, however, there are usually multiple endpoints available for measurement of disease status and/or therapeutic effect of the t...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Chow SC,Huang Z

更新日期：2019-01-01 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：:For the assessment of biosimilarity of biosimilar products, the United States (US) Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a stepwise approach for providing the totality-of-the-evidence of similarity between a proposed biosimilar product and a US-licensed (reference) product. The stepwise approach starts with the ...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Wang T,Chow SC

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dunnett's many-to-one test is used frequently today, especially in dose-finding studies. Using Dunnett's test, the Type I error level for the comparison between the raw mean of the control and the raw means of the study drug groups can be exactly calculated for the normal data. However, this computability depends on t...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Shun Z,Silverberg A,Chang CK,Ouyang P

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fisher's exact test and Pearson's chi-square with continuity correction are frequently employed in the analysis of epidemiological data involving a 2 x 2 contingency table. This paper reviews the concepts and controversies underlying these procedures and discusses their appropriateness and adequacies in analyzing such...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Sahai H,Khurshid A

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple comparisons are commonly seen in clinical trials and many other fields. An example, which is the focus of this paper, is the comparison of several test treatments (possibly different doses of a compound) with placebo (control). It is well known that steps must be taken to control the type I error rate when mu...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Chen M,Kianifard F

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The issue of consistency and reliability arises frequently in applied clinical trials, and there is a considerable amount of literature on this topic. For a continuous random variable, we describe a process to assess whether the mean and variance are the same from one evaluation to the other and we derive the intracla...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Kao TC,Sparling Y,Rochon J

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：:Gene expression profiling has played an important role in cancer risk classification and has shown promising results. Since gene expression profiling often involves determination of a set of top rank genes for analysis, it is important to evaluate how modeling performance varies with the number of selected top ranked ...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Chen DT,Schell MJ,Chen JJ,Fulp WJ,Eschrich S,Yeatman T

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We extend the development of the expression of the Fisher information matrix in nonlinear mixed effects models for designs evaluation. We consider the dependence of the marginal variance of the observations with the mean parameters and assume an heteroscedastic variance error model. Complex models with interoccasions ...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Retout S,Mentré F

更新日期：2003-05-01 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：: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：:A new two-stage design is proposed that is suitable for early detection of the anticancer activity of experimental therapies in Phase II oncology trials. The endpoints of interest are response rate and early progression rate. The anticancer activity is defined by a positive signal in one endpoint and a non-negative si...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Sun LZ,Chen C,Patel K

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：:A thorough QT trial is typically designed to test for two set of hypotheses. The primary set of hypotheses is for demonstrating that the test treatment will not prolong QT interval. The second set of hypotheses is to demonstrate the assay sensitivity of the positive control treatment in the study population. The conve...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Tsong Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With the use of finite mixture models for the clustering of a data set, the crucial question of how many clusters there are in the data can be addressed by testing for the smallest number of components in the mixture model compatible with the data. We investigate the performance of a resampling approach to this latter...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： McLachlan GJ,Rathnayake SI

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most critical decision points in clinical development is Go/No-Go decision-making after a proof-of-concept study. Traditional decision-making relies on a formal hypothesis testing with control of type I and type II error rates, which is limited by assessing the strength of efficacy evidence in a small isola...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Huang B,Talukder E,Han L,Kuan PF

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article discusses the design of a clinical trial where a new treatment will be compared to a control. For a specific type of endpoint, there are a wide variety of test statistics that can be used. Also, the investigator must decide how many patients to accrue in each arm as well as the duration of the study. Afte...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Lawrence J

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:We introduce the idea of a design to detect signals of efficacy in early phase clinical trials. Such a design features three possible decisions: to kill the compound; to continue with staged development; or to continue with accelerated development of the compound. We describe how such studies improve the trade-off bet...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Brown MJ,Chuang-Stein C,Kirby S

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the importance of precision medicine, it is essential to identify the right patients for the right treatment. Biomarkers, which have been commonly used in clinical research as well as in clinical practice, can facilitate selection of patients with a good response to the treatment. In this paper, we describe a b...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Diao G,Dong J,Zeng D,Ke C,Rong A,Ibrahim JG

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The study of drug combinations has become important in drug development due to its potential for efficacy at lower, less toxic doses and the need to move new therapies rapidly into clinical trials. The goal is to identify which combinations are additive, synergistic, or antagonistic. Although there exists statistical ...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Fang HB,Tian GL,Li W,Tan M

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, multi-regional clinical trials (MRCT) that conduct clinical trials simultaneously in Asian Pacific region, Europe, and the United States have become very popular for global pharmaceutical development. The main purpose of multi-regional clinical trials is to shorten the time for pharmaceutical developm...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Ying L,Song F,Chow SC,Zeng N,Zheng J,Li X,Henry D,Sethuraman V

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dichotomizing a continuous biomarker is a common practice in medical research. Various methods exist in the literature for dichotomizing continuous biomarkers. The most widely adopted minimum p-value approach uses a sequence of test statistics for all possible dichotomizations of a continuous biomarker, and it chooses...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Su M,Fang L,Su Z

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：: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：:In the early stages of traditional drug development, the frequency of dosing (e.g., QD, BID, etc.) is typically determined by the pharmacokinetic properties of a compound. After an appropriate dose frequency is chosen, the magnitude of dose is then evaluated via parallel-group dose-response trials. For some drugs, how...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Hafner KB,Ruberg SJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ability to predict the metabolic fate of a drug is important to drug design. Programs for predicting drug metabolites are becoming available, as are databases that will facilitate the development of such programs. Objective analysis of the performance of these programs will require statistical methods. The developm...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Johnson M

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00