Introductory Adaptive Trial Designs - A Practical Guide With R

Taking a learning-by-doing approach, this tutorial-style book helps newcomers quickly and easily grasp the essence of adaptive designs as well as the foundations of adaptive design methods. It reduces the mathematics to a minimum and makes the material as practical as possible. The author includes R functions that enable readers to better understand the algorithms and customize the designs to meet their needs. For those with no R experience, an appendix provides a 30-minute R tutorial.

List of contents

Introduction. Classical Design. Two-Stage Adaptive Confirmatory Design Method. K-Stage Adaptive Confirmatory Design Methods. Sample-Size Reestimation Design. Special Two-Stage Group Sequential Trials. Pick-the-Winners Design. The Add-Arms Design. Biomarker-Adaptive Design. Response-Adaptive Randomization. Adaptive Dose-Escalation Trial. Deciding Which Adaptive Design to Use. Monitoring Trial and Making Adaptations. Data Analyses of Adaptive Trials. Planning and Execution. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.

About the author

Mark Chang is vice president of biometrics at AMAG Pharmaceuticals and an adjunct professor at Boston University. Dr. Chang is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and a co-founder of the International Society for Biopharmaceutical Statistics. He serves on the editorial boards of statistical journals and has published eight books, including Principles of Scientific Methods, Paradoxes in Scientific Inference, Modern Issues and Methods in Biostatistics, Monte Carlo Simulation for the Pharmaceutical Industry, and Adaptive Design Theory and Implementation Using SAS and R, Second Edition.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Chang, Mark (Amag Pharmaceuticals Chang, Chang Mark
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.06.2015
• EAN: 9781498717465
• ISBN: 978-1-4987-1746-5
• No. of pages: 232
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Epidemiology & medical statistics, MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General, MEDICAL / Pharmacology, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, Biology, life sciences, Probability & statistics, Pharmaceutical technology, Probability and statistics, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, Clinical Trials, Pharmaceutical chemistry and technology