Heterogeneity in phase I clinical trials: prior elicitation and computation using the continual reassessment method

Statistics in Medicine - Tập 20 Số 6 - Trang 867-882 - 2001
Anna Legedza1, Joseph G. Ibrahim2,1
1Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, U.S.A.
2Dana Farber Cancer Institute

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AbstractHeterogeneity in a phase I clinical trial patient population may lead to distinctly different dose–response relationships along covariate values. For a given target probability of toxicity, this implies different maximum tolerated doses (MTDs) for each distinct subpopulation. Within the framework of O'Quigley, Pepe and Fisher's (1990) continual reassessment method, we propose the notion of average and patient‐specific MTDs by augmenting the dose–response model with other covariates to account for such differences. A method to elicit prior distributions on the dose and other covariate parameters are proposed, based on the predictive approach of Ibrahim and Laud (1994), Laud and Ibrahim (1995), and Ibrahim, Ryan and Chen (1998). This approach relies on prior predictions for the response vector y0 and a quantity a0 specifying uncertainty in y0. Then, y0 and a0 are used to specify a prior for the regression coefficients in a semi‐automatic fashion. The elicitation scheme for y0 uses results from previous phase I cancer clinical trials. The average and patient‐specific MTDs and an elicitation method are demonstrated in logistic regression examples. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Statistics in Medicine

Tập 20 Số 6

867-882

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