Randomised Response-Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials

ISBN-13: 9781584886938 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 340 str.

Atanu Biswas;Anthony C. Atkinson

Opis

Randomised Response-Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials presents methods for the randomised allocation of treatments to patients in sequential clinical trials. Emphasizing the practical application of clinical trial designs, the book is designed for medical and applied statisticians, clinicians, and statisticians in training. After introducing clinical trials in drug development, the authors assess a simple adaptive design for binary responses without covariates. They discuss randomisation and covariate balance in normally distributed responses and cover many important response-adaptive designs for binary responses. The book then develops response-adaptive designs for continuous and longitudinal responses, optimum designs with covariates, and response-adaptive designs with covariates. It also covers response-adaptive designs that are derived by optimising an objective function subject to constraints on the variance of estimated parametric functions. The concluding chapter explores future directions in the development of adaptive designs.

Response-adaptive designs, which aim to reduce the number of patients receiving inferior treatments, are becoming increasingly popular in Phase III clinical trials. Written by leading experts, Response-Adaptive Designs in Clinical Trials provides an overview of the growing research in this area, presents up-to-date methodology, and includes all necessary background material on adaptive clinical trials. Illustrating methods with numerous real-world examples from recent clinical trials, the book offers practical guidelines for applying these methods in the field, includes supporting software available for download, and explores future research directions.

Spis treści

Introduction: Stories and Data. Adaptive Design: Controversies and Progress. Randomised Balanced Sequential Treatment Allocation. Response-Adaptive Designs for Binary Responses. Response-Adaptive Designs for Continuous Responses. Response-Adaptive Designs for Longitudinal Responses. Optimum Biased-Coin Designs with Covariates. Optimum Response-Adaptive Designs with Covariates. Optimal Response-Adaptive Designs with Constraints. Adaptive Design: Further Important Issues. Appendix. Bibliography. Index.

O autorze

Anthony C. Atkinson is an Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Atanu Biswas is a professor in the Applied Statistics Unit at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata.