Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods

The Korean Statistical Society (한국통계학회)
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Comparison of sequential estimation in response-adaptive designs with and without covariate-adjustment

  • Park, Eunsik (Department of Statistics, Chonnam National University)
  • Received : 2016.04.03
  • Accepted : 2016.07.21
  • Published : 2016.07.31
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Abstract

Subjects on one side of the covariate population can be allocated to the inferior treatment when there is interaction between the covariate and treatment along with a response-adaptive (RA) design without covariate adjustment. An RA design allows a newly entered subject to have a better chance so that the subject is treated by a superior treatment based on cumulative information from previous subjects. A covariate-adjusted response-adaptive (CARA) is the same as RA design and additionally adjusts the allocation based on individual covariate information. A comparison has been made for the sequential estimation procedure with and without covariate adjustment to see how ignoring significantly interactive covariate affects the correct treatment allocation. Using logistic models, we present simulation results regarding the coverage probability of treatment effect, correct allocation, and stopping time.

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