A multi-treatment response adaptive design for ordinal categorical responses
Article Type
Research Article
Publication Title
Statistical Methods in Medical Research
Abstract
A multi-treatment response adaptive procedure is developed considering “comparison with the best” philosophy of multiple comparison procedures for clinical trials with ordinal categorical responses, when there is no shared control. For each response category, we arbitrarily create two outcome groups; one by combining the categories more favorable to it and the other by merging the categories at most as favorable to it and hence define the odds (i.e. cumulative odds). Pairwise ratios of such odds (i.e. cumulative odds ratios) based on pairs of treatments are combined conveniently to derive a measure of relative superiority and hence the allocation probability functions. For practical implementation, we suggest response-adaptive randomization (RAR), that is, update the allocation probabilities dynamically using the available allocation and response information to favor the treatment doing better. Empirical as well as large sample properties following the randomization are investigated in detail. Moreover, a real clinical trial with trauma patients is redesigned using the proposed RAR to envisage practical applicability.
First Page
827
Last Page
836
DOI
10.1177/0962280219846152
Publication Date
3-1-2020
Recommended Citation
Biswas, Atanu; Bhattacharya, Rahul; and Das, Soumyadeep, "A multi-treatment response adaptive design for ordinal categorical responses" (2020). Journal Articles. 389.
https://digitalcommons.isical.ac.in/journal-articles/389