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Abstract Details

Activity Number: 565
Type: Topic Contributed
Date/Time: Wednesday, August 3, 2011 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Biopharmaceutical Section
Abstract - #301379
Title: An Adaptive Strategy in a Single-Arm Trial Against an Objective Performance Criterion Using an Exact Test Through the Binomial Distribution
Author(s): Jin Wang and Xiaolu Su*+
Companies: Abbott Vascular
Address: 3200 lakeside drive, santa clara, CA, 95054,
Keywords: adaptive design ; conditional error function ; binomial distribution ; single-arm trial
Abstract:

For medical product development within the same generation, usually a small incremental change is made. Therefore, single-arm trial designs are commonly implemented to test the performance of the new product against an Objective Performance Criterion (OPC), which is a fixed value developed by historical data or literature review. When the primary endpoint is an event rate, to be conservative, regulatory agencies may require the use of an exact test through binomial distribution when the sample size is modest. Utilizing the idea by Proschan and Hunsberger, this article proves that it can be a free gift to add an adaptive component to a regular fixed sample size design so that when the result in the first stage is marginal, the adaptive feature can be activated without any penalty. A hypothetical example is used to illustrate the application of this method.


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