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A hierarchical Bayes model for biomarker subset effects in clinical trials

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  • Chen, Bingshu E.
  • Jiang, Wenyu
  • Tu, Dongsheng

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Some baseline patient factors, such as biomarkers, are useful in predicting patients’ responses to a new therapy. Identification of such factors is important in enhancing treatment outcomes, avoiding potentially toxic therapy that is destined to fail and improving the cost-effectiveness of treatment. Many of the biomarkers, such as gene expression, are measured on a continuous scale. A threshold of the biomarker is often needed to define a sensitive subset for making easy clinical decisions. A novel hierarchical Bayesian method is developed to make statistical inference simultaneously on the threshold and the treatment effect restricted on the sensitive subset defined by the biomarker threshold. In the proposed method, the threshold parameter is treated as a random variable that takes values with a certain probability distribution. The observed data are used to estimate parameters in the prior distribution for the threshold, so that the posterior is less dependent on the prior assumption. The proposed Bayesian method is evaluated through simulation studies. Compared to the existing approaches such as the profile likelihood method, which makes inferences about the threshold parameter using the bootstrap, the proposed method provides better finite sample properties in terms of the coverage probability of a 95% credible interval. The proposed method is also applied to a clinical trial of prostate cancer with the serum prostatic acid phosphatase (AP) biomarker.

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  • Chen, Bingshu E. & Jiang, Wenyu & Tu, Dongsheng, 2014. "A hierarchical Bayes model for biomarker subset effects in clinical trials," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 71(C), pages 324-334.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:csdana:v:71:y:2014:i:c:p:324-334
    DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2013.05.015
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    1. Werft, W. & Benner, A. & Kopp-Schneider, A., 2012. "On the identification of predictive biomarkers: Detecting treatment-by-gene interaction in high-dimensional data," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 56(5), pages 1275-1286.
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    1. Parisa Gavanji & Bingshu E. Chen & Wenyu Jiang, 2018. "Residual Bootstrap Test for Interactions in Biomarker Threshold Models with Survival Data," Statistics in Biosciences, Springer;International Chinese Statistical Association, vol. 10(1), pages 202-216, April.
    2. Fang, Tian & Mackillop, William & Jiang, Wenyu & Hildesheim, Allan & Wacholder, Sholom & Chen, Bingshu E., 2017. "A Bayesian method for risk window estimation with application to HPV vaccine trial," Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 112(C), pages 53-62.
    3. Rui Zhang & Guoyou Qin & Dongsheng Tu, 2023. "A robust threshold t linear mixed model for subgroup identification using multivariate T distributions," Computational Statistics, Springer, vol. 38(1), pages 299-326, March.

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