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Meta-analytic-predictive use of historical variance data for the design and analysis of clinical trials

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  • Schmidli, Heinz
  • Neuenschwander, Beat
  • Friede, Tim

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Continuous endpoints are common in clinical trials. The design and analysis of such trials is often based on models assuming normally distributed data, possibly after an appropriate transformation. When planning a new trial, information on the variance of the endpoint is usually available from historical trials. Although the idea to use historical data for a new trial is not new, literature on how to formally summarize and use these data on variances is scarce. The meta-analytic-predictive (MAP) approach consists of a random-effects meta-analysis of the historical variance data and a prediction of the variance in the new clinical trial. Two applications that rely on the MAP approach are considered: first, the selection of the sample size in the new trial, guided by the prediction of the variance; and, second, the inclusion of the predicted variance in a Bayesian analysis of the new trial. A clinical trial in patients with wet age-related macular degeneration illustrates the methodology.

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  • Schmidli, Heinz & Neuenschwander, Beat & Friede, Tim, 2017. "Meta-analytic-predictive use of historical variance data for the design and analysis of clinical trials," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 113(C), pages 100-110.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:csdana:v:113:y:2017:i:c:p:100-110
    DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2016.08.007
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