Statistical assessment of biosimilarity based on the relative distance between follow-on biologics for binary endpoints.

abstract：:Testing for noninferiority and equivalence between an experimental therapy and a standard therapy in terms of the ratio of binomial proportions is considered. New tests based on the Fieller-Hinkley distribution of the ratio of random variables are proposed. Restricted maximum likelihood estimates of the null variances...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Koti KM

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:We develop a Bayesian approach for estimating vaccine efficacy for susceptibility (VEs) and infectiousness (VEI) using outbreak size household data. Our method allows for heterogeneity in transmission probabilities due to factors that are related to individuals' characteristics, such as age, in addition to vaccination...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Davis XM,Waller LA,Haber M

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Statistical methodologies for human abuse potential studies are rarely evaluated. Human abuse potential studies assess whether test drugs produce positive and negative subjective responses on abuse-related measures using volunteers with histories of recreational drug use. These studies typically have a randomized, dou...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Chen L,Bonson KR

更新日期：2013-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this paper is to describe, illustrate, and compare a number of different approaches to the analysis of repeated binary and categorical data. These approaches include empirical generalized least squares and generalized estimating equations, as well as traditional log-linear modeling methods. It is shown ...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Kenward MG,Jones B

更新日期：1992-01-01 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：: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：: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：:The Food and Drug Administration of the United States issued a draft guidance on adaptive design clinical trials in February 2010. This draft guidance has attracted a lot of attention because of the increasing interest in adaptive trials by the pharmaceutical industry in recent years. In this paper, we report on highl...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Chuang-Stein C,Beltangady M

更新日期：2010-11-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:In confidence interval estimation of the difference between two proportions with overdispersion due to positive correlations, the usual asymptotic normality-based method generally has lower coverage rates than desired, especially when sample size is moderate. Applying the concept of effective sample size to existing m...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Chen C,Li J,Zhou Z

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:During preclinical drug development, the immune system is specifically evaluated after prolonged treatment with drug candidates, because the immune system may be an important target system. The response of antibodies against a T-cell-dependent antigen is recommenced by the FDA and EMEA for the evaluation of immunosupp...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Shkedy Z,Straetemans R,Molenberghs G,Desmidt M,Vinken P,Goeminne N,Coussement W,Van Den Poel B,Bijnens L

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All too often in clinical trials the assessment of quality of life is seen as a bolt-on study. Consequently insufficient consideration is often given to its design, collection, analysis and presentation, and its impact on the trial results and on clinical practice is minimal. In many trials quality of life is a key en...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Stephens R

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypoglycemia is a major safety concern for diabetic patients. Hypoglycemic events can be modeled based on time to recurrent events or count data. In this article, we evaluated a gamma frailty model with variance estimated by the inverse of observed Fisher information matrix, a gamma frailty model with the sandwich var...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Ma C,Qu Y,Fu H

更新日期：2020-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:An integral part of routine health checkups involves laboratory measurements on various analytes in the blood. It is then common to compare the value of two consecutive measurements sampled at different times from the same patient. A "significant" change requires an action (additional sample and/or clinical action). T...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Cohen A,Doveh E,Umansky T

更新日期：2001-01-01 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：: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：:The proportion ratio (PR) of a positive response between an experimental treatment and a standard treatment (or placebo) is often used to measure the relative treatment efficacy in a randomized clinical trial (RCT). For ethical reasons, it is almost inevitable to encounter some patients not complying with their assign...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Lui KJ,Chang KC

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：: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：:After a group sequential test, the naive confidence interval (CI) is usually biased in the sense that it does not cover the true parameter at the correct nominal level. Furthermore, when the stopping time is taken into account, the actual conditional confidence coverage probability can be much less accurate. In this a...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Fan X,DeMets DL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper addresses the problem of analyzing multivariate response with the variates having different distributions. We use the generalized estimating equations proposed by Prentice and Zhao (1) to estimate mean and covariance parameters. Wald statistics are used to test hypotheses about the parameters. Data from a t...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： May WL,Johnson WD

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sample size adjustment at an interim analysis can mitigate the risk of failing to meet the study objective due to lower-than-expected treatment effect. Without modification to the conventional statistical methods, the type I error rate will be inflated, primarily caused by increasing sample size when the interim obser...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Chen YHJ,Yuan SS,Li X

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating the prevalence of a disease is an important topic in medical studies. Such investigations are usually based on the classification results of a group of subjects according to whether they have the disease. To classify subjects, screening tests that are inexpensive and nonintrusive to the test subjects are...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Tang ML,Qiu SF,Poon WY,Tang NS

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of multicenter trials consider the estimated treatment effect differences of the individual centers and combine them into an estimate of the overall treatment effect. There has been much debate in the literature concerning the best way to combine these treatment effect differences. We emphasize that first of ...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Dragalin V,Fedorov V,Jones B,Rockhold F

更新日期：2001-11-01 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