Identification of Risk Factors and Likelihood of Benefit from Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Early Stage Lung Cancer Patients.

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：:As more biologic products are going off patent protection, the development of follow-on biologic products (also known as biosimilars) has gained much attention from both the biotechnology industry and regulatory agencies. Unlike small molecules, the development of biologic products is not only more complicated but als...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Zhang N,Yang J,Chow SC,Chi E

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Frequentist design for two-arm randomized Phase II clinical trials with outcomes from the exponential dispersion family was proposed previously, where the total sample sizes are minimized under multiple constraints on the standard errors of the estimated group means and their difference. This design was generalized fr...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Jiang W,Wick JA,He J,Mahnken JD,Mayo MS

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sample size calculation formulas for testing equality, noninferiority, superiority, and equivalence based on odds ratio were derived under both parallel and one-arm crossover designs. An example concerning the study of odds ratio between a test compound (treatment) and a standard therapy (control) for prevention of re...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Wang H,Chow SC,Li G

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Predictive probability is particularly useful in aiding a decision-making process related to drug development. This is especially true for decisions occurring as the result of interim analyses of clinical trials. Examples of clinical trial applications of Bayesian predictive probability and the use of the beta-binomia...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Johns D,Andersen JS

更新日期：1999-03-01 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：:Bowker's test, a generalization of McNemar's test, performs well under the hypothesis of symmetry, but the estimator of variance used in the test is biased when the table is asymmetric and this calls into question the test's performance in non-null situations. We seek an alternative to Bowker's test in search of metho...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： May WL,Johnson WD

更新日期：2001-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Classification measures play essential roles in the assessment and construction of classifiers. Hence, determining how to prevent these measures from being affected by individual observations has become an important problem. In this paper, we propose several indexes based on the influence function and the concept of l...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Ke BS,Chiang AJ,Chang YI

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parameter estimation following an adaptive design or group sequential design has been extremely challenging due to potential random high from its face value estimate. In this paper, we introduce a new framework to model clinical trial data flow based on a marked point process (MPP). The MPP model allows us to use meth...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Luo X,Li M,Shih WJ,Ouyang P

更新日期：2012-01-01 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：:Large sample size imbalance is not uncommon in the biosimilar development. At the beginning of a product development, sample sizes of a biosimilar and a reference product may be limited. Thus, a sample size calculation may not be feasible. During the development stage, more batches of reference products may be added a...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Dong XC,Weng YT,Tsong Y

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We propose a new adaptive threshold detection and enrichment design in which the biomarker threshold is adaptively estimated and updated by optimizing a trade-off between the size of the biomarker positive population and the magnitude of the treatment effect in that population. Enrichment is based on an enrollment cri...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Wang T,Wang X,George SL,Zhou H

更新日期：2020-11-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A new three-arm parallel design was recently proposed to investigate the biosimilarity between a biological product and a reference product by using the relative distance. The purpose of this article is to extend their results to binary endpoints for three popular metrics: the risk difference, the log relative risk, a...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Shin W,Kang SH

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, two CPMP Points to Consider, one on adjustment for baseline covariates and the other on multiplicity issues in clinical trials, have included recommendations on the use of subgroup analysis for regulatory purposes. However, despite their regular use and regulatory attention, the validity and nature of subgro...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Grouin JM,Coste M,Lewis J

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:People exposed to certain diseases are required to be treated with a safe and effective dose level of a drug. In epidemiological studies to find out an effective dose level, different dose levels are applied to the exposed and a certain number of cures is observed. Negative binomial distribution is considered to fit o...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Roy M,Choudhury K,Islam MM,Matin MA

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A framework is proposed for making quality predictions in situations for which only systematically inaccurate data are available. The predictions are based on the systematically inaccurate data, complete data from similar situations, and expert knowledge. The proposed predictive model is well suited to functional data...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Haaland B,Chiang AY

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We would like to estimate the parameters of a dose-response function with the greatest precision as possible. For a two-parameter model, this is equivalent to minimizing the area of the confidence ellipsoid, i.e., a D-optimal design. Previous work on this particular model has included minimal designs. These designs ar...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Lupinacci PJ,Raghavarao D

更新日期：2000-02-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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