| The use of group sequential designs with common competing risks tests. | |
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PMID: 22945865 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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Clinical trials are often performed using a group sequential design in order to allow investigators to review the accumulating data sequentially and possibly terminate the trial early for efficacy or futility. Standard methods for comparing survival distributions have been shown under varying levels of generality to follow an independent increments structure. In the presence of competing risks, where the occurrence of one type of event precludes the occurrence of another type of event, researchers may be interested in inference on the cumulative incidence function, which describes the probability of experiencing a particular event by a given time. This manuscript shows that two commonly used tests for comparing cumulative incidence functions, a pointwise comparison at a single point, and Gray's test, also follow the independent increments structure when used in a group sequential setting. A simulation study confirms the theoretical derivations even for modest trial sample sizes. We used two examples of clinical trials in hematopoietic cell transplantation to illustrate the techniques. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Brent R Logan; Mei-Jie Zhang |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE Date: 2012-9-4 |
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Title: Statistics in medicine Volume: - ISSN: 1097-0258 ISO Abbreviation: Stat Med Publication Date: 2012 Sep |
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Created Date: 2012-9-4 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8215016 Medline TA: Stat Med Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: - Citation Subset: - |
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Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Medical College of Wisconsin, 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226-0509, U.S.A. |
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