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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:It has been widely recognized that interim analyses of accumulating data in a clinical trial can inflate type I error. Different methods, from group sequential boundaries to flexible alpha spending functions, have been developed to control the overall type I error at prespecified level. These methods mainly apply to t...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Chen LM,Ibrahim JG,Chu H

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In cancer drug development, demonstrated efficacy in tumor xenograft models is an important step toward bringing a promising compound to human use. A key outcome variable is tumor volume measured over a period of time, while mice are treated with certain treatment regimens. A constrained parametric model has been prop...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Fang HB,Deng D,Zhang T,Tan M

更新日期：2014-01-01 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 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：: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：:The sequential parallel comparison design (SPCD) is a two-stage design recommended for trials with possibly high placebo response. A drug-placebo comparison in the first stage is followed in the second stage by placebo nonresponders being re-randomized between drug and placebo. We describe how SPCD can be used in tria...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Wang JJ,Ivanova A

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：:Multipopulation tailoring trials provide a trial design option that supports the realization of tailored therapeutics or personalized medicine. Several recent publications have focused on statistical and clinical considerations that arise in these trials that are designed to study the overall treatment effect in a pop...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Millen BA,Dmitrienko A,Song G

更新日期：2014-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:In 1968 the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) established the Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) database containing data on adverse events (AEs) reported by patients, health care providers, and other sources through a spontaneous reporting system. FDA uses AERS for monitoring the safety of the drugs on the market...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Huang L,Zalkikar J,Tiwari RC

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:To confirm results obtained from local evaluation at investigational centers, many oncology studies utilize blinded independent central review (BICR) to make assessments of the primary endpoint, progression-free survival (PFS). The comparison of data often leads to large discordances between these observations, castin...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Mannino FV,Amit O,Lahiri S

更新日期：2013-01-01 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：: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：:Due to the potential impact of ethnic factors on clinical outcomes, the global registration of a new treatment is challenging. China and Japan often require local trials in addition to a multiregional clinical trial (MRCT) to support the efficacy and safety claim of the treatment. The impact of ethnic factors on the t...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Huang Q,Chen G,Yuan Z,Lan KK

更新日期：2012-09-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:Bayesian statistical methodology has been used for more than 10 years in medical device premarket submissions to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A complete list of the publicly available information associated with these FDA applications is presented. In addition to the increasing number of Bayesian metho...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Campbell G

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Randomized controlled clinical trials often use a composite endpoint as a primary endpoint especially when treatment effects or frequency of individual components of the composite are likely to be small and combining them makes clinical sense for the disease under study. An advantage of the composite endpoint is that,...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Huque MF,Alosh M,Bhore R

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An important application of confirmatory adaptive designs is the data-driven selection of treatment arms in multi-armed trials. A general methodology for adaptive designs is based on the combination testing principle. Using this principle, selection of treatment arms in multi-armed designs, recalculation of sample siz...

journal_title：Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics

authors： Wassmer G

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00