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Activity Number:
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632
- Statistical Issues Specific the Therapeutic Areas-4
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 2, 2018 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
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Sponsor:
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Biopharmaceutical Section
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Abstract #328887
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Presentation
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Title:
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Variational Inference for Proportional Hazards Model with Power Prior in Oncology Studies
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Author(s):
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Bo Jin* and Yue Chang
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Companies:
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Boston Biomedical Inc. and Boston Biomedical Inc
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Keywords:
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Hazard Ratio;
Variational approximation;
MCMC approximation;
Bayesian;
Power prior
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Abstract:
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In this paper we consider the problem of analyzing survival data from a randomized and standard therapy-controlled early phase oncology study. We take Bayesian approaches with power prior to incorporate historical data of the standard therapy. We assume that the hazard functions are proportional over time and specify the baseline hazard function by a piece-wise constant hazard model. The talk's contribution is to develop a variational approximation (VA) approach to estimation and prior power selection for this model. We conduct simulation experiments to compare the VA approach to Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) approximation to the posterior and illustrate the application of VA in model selection. VA produces point estimates with comparable accuracy with MCMC at faster speed and provides a quick method for model selection.
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Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
