| Controlling the type 1 error rate in non-inferiority trials. | |
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PMID: 17914715 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE |
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Two different approaches have been proposed for establishing the efficacy of an experimental therapy through a non-inferiority trial: The fixed-margin approach involves first defining a non-inferiority margin and then demonstrating that the experimental therapy is not worse than the control by more than this amount, and the synthesis approach involves combining the data from the non-inferiority trial with the data from historical trials evaluating the effect of the control. In this paper, we introduce a unified approach that has both these approaches as special cases and show how the parameters of this approach can be selected to control the unconditional type 1 error rate in the presence of departures from the assumptions of assay sensitivity and constancy. It is shown that the fixed-margin approach can be extremely inefficient and that it is always possible to achieve equivalent control of the unconditional type 1 error rate, with higher power, by using an appropriately chosen synthesis method. |
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Authors:
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Steven Snapinn; Qi Jiang |
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Publication Detail:
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Type: Journal Article |
Journal Detail:
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Title: Statistics in medicine Volume: 27 ISSN: 0277-6715 ISO Abbreviation: Stat Med Publication Date: 2008 Feb |
Date Detail:
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Created Date: 2008-01-14 Completed Date: 2008-04-24 Revised Date: 2008-10-06 |
Medline Journal Info:
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Nlm Unique ID: 8215016 Medline TA: Stat Med Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 371-81 Citation Subset: IM |
Affiliation:
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Amgen Inc., One Amgen Center Drive, 24-2-C, Thousand Oaks, CA 91320, USA. ssnapinn@amgen.com |
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Bias (Epidemiology)* Clinical Trials as Topic / ethics, methods, statistics & numerical data* Humans Models, Statistical* United States |
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Stat Med. 2008 Oct 15;27(23):4855-6 |
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