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Activity Number: 549 - Optimal Designs for Modeling Asymmetries in Big Data
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: WNAR
Abstract #300397 Presentation
Title: Adjusting for Bias Induced by Informative Adaptive Designs
Author(s): Nancy Flournoy* and Assaf P Oron
Companies: University of Missouri and Institute for Disease Modeling
Keywords: Dose-finding; Up-and-down designs; Continual Reassessment; Binary regression; Informative sampling; Inference for stochastic processes
Abstract:

We begin this talk with a discussion of general issues in inference that arise when a treatment or stimulus value is chosen sequentially for each subject according to some informative sampling rule. We explain how such adaptation induces bias, and provide an exact algebraic expression for this bias when summary data are frequency counts. Bias in frequency count data impacts both isotonic and standard likelihood-based regression results. Focusing on a binary response Y that has a monotone positive response probability to a stimulus (treatment) X, we illustrate the bias induced by designs that sequentially select X values for new subjects in a way that concentrates treatments in a certain region of interest under the dose-response curve using some well-known (small sample size) adaptive methods including selected up-and-down designs, interval designs, and the continual reassessment method. We then propose a bias adjustment inspired by Firth (1993).


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