The Theory of Response-Adaptive Randomization in Clinical Trials

Feifang Hu,William F. Rosenberger

The Theory of Response-Adaptive Randomization in Clinical Trials
Format
Hardback
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Country
United States
Published
7 August 2006
Pages
232
ISBN
9780471653967

The Theory of Response-Adaptive Randomization in Clinical Trials

Feifang Hu,William F. Rosenberger

Presents a firm mathematical basis for the use of response-adaptive randomization procedures in practice The Theory of Response-Adaptive Randomization in Clinical Trials is the result of the authors’ ten-year collaboration as well as their collaborations with other researchers in investigating the important questions regarding response-adaptive randomization in a rigorous mathematical framework. Response-adaptive allocation has a long history in biostatistics literature; however, largely due to the disastrous ECMO trial in the early 1980s, there is a general reluctance to use these procedures. This timely book represents a mathematically rigorous subdiscipline of experimental design involving randomization and answers fundamental questions, including: * How does response-adaptive randomization affect power? * Can standard inferential tests be applied following response-adaptive randomization? * What is the effect of delayed response? * Which procedure is most appropriate and how can most appropriate be quantified? * How can heterogeneity of the patient population be incorporated? * Can response-adaptive randomization be performed with more than two treatments or with continuous responses? The answers to these questions communicate a thorough understanding of the asymptotic properties of each procedure discussed, including asymptotic normality, consistency, and asymptotic variance of the induced allocation. Topical coverage includes: * The relationship between power and response-adaptive randomization * The general result for determining asymptotically best procedures * Procedures based on urn models * Procedures based on sequential estimation * Implications for the practice of clinical trials Useful for graduate students in mathematics, statistics, and biostatistics as well as researchers and industrial and academic biostatisticians, this book offers a rigorous treatment of the subject in order to find the optimal procedure to use in practice.

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