Conditionally unbiased estimation in phase II/III clinical trials with early stopping for futility

Kimani, P. K., Todd, S. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9981-923X and Stallard, N. (2013) Conditionally unbiased estimation in phase II/III clinical trials with early stopping for futility. Statistics in Medicine, 32 (17). pp. 2893-2910. ISSN 0277-6715 doi: 10.1002/sim.5757

Abstract/Summary

Seamless phase II/III clinical trials combine traditional phases II and III into a single trial that is conducted in two stages, with stage 1 used to answer phase II objectives such as treatment selection and stage 2 used for the confirmatory analysis, which is a phase III objective. Although seamless phase II/III clinical trials are efficient because the confirmatory analysis includes phase II data from stage 1, inference can pose statistical challenges. In this paper, we consider point estimation following seamless phase II/III clinical trials in which stage 1 is used to select the most effective experimental treatment and to decide if, compared with a control, the trial should stop at stage 1 for futility. If the trial is not stopped, then the phase III confirmatory part of the trial involves evaluation of the selected most effective experimental treatment and the control. We have developed two new estimators for the treatment difference between these two treatments with the aim of reducing bias conditional on the treatment selection made and on the fact that the trial continues to stage 2. We have demonstrated the properties of these estimators using simulations

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/31131
Identification Number/DOI	10.1002/sim.5757
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Statistics Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Mathematics and Statistics > Applied Statistics
Uncontrolled Keywords	adaptive seamless designs; phase II/III clinical trials; estimation
Publisher	Wiley
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