1. Statistical tests based on new composite hypotheses in clinical trials reflecting the relative clinical importance of multiple endpoints quantitatively.
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Nishikawa M, Tango T, and Ohtaki M
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- Asthma drug therapy, Asthma physiopathology, Forced Expiratory Volume, Humans, Models, Statistical, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive drug therapy, Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive physiopathology, Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic statistics & numerical data, Biometry methods, Clinical Trials as Topic statistics & numerical data, Endpoint Determination statistics & numerical data
- Abstract
In clinical trials, several endpoints (EPs) are often evaluated to compare treatments in some therapeutic area. Suppose that there are two EPs in a clinical trial. We propose a new set of composite hypotheses for continuous variables, taking the relative clinical importance of the EPs into account. The main hypotheses were formulated to show that a treatment is so superior to the control treatment, which is not necessarily a placebo, in one EP, that the possible non-inferiority of the treatment by at most a certain value in the other EP can be compensated sufficiently, taking the clinical point of view into account. The maximum non-inferiority margin of one EP might not be a biologically unimportant difference in exchange for much superiority of the other EP. This formulation leads to a new composite EP and a very simple test statistic. The intersection-union principle was employed to derive the proposed test.
- Published
- 2009
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