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Activity Number:
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653
- Machine Learning and Other Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Thursday, August 1, 2019 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Biopharmaceutical Section
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Abstract #304340
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Presentation
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Title:
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Alternatives to Logistic Regression for Detecting Treatment by Covariate Interactions with Binary Endpoints
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Author(s):
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Radha Railkar* and Devan Mehrotra
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Companies:
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Merck & Co., Inc. and Merck & Co., Inc
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Keywords:
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clinical trial;
logistic regression;
interaction;
covariate;
scale
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Abstract:
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In clinical trials there is often interest in evaluating whether certain patient characteristics affect response to treatment. This is particularly important for optimizing the drug development process and advancing the goal of personalized medicine. It is therefore important to use appropriate methods to detect a treatment by covariate interaction. When the endpoint of interest is binary, logistic regression is commonly used to test for a treatment by covariate interaction. Logistic regression implicitly tests for an interaction on the odds ratio or logit scale. In practice an interaction may exist on one or more scales (e.g., original or log scales) and it is important to be able to detect these interactions. We propose alternative methods to test the null hypothesis of no treatment by covariate interaction on any scale. The advantages of the new methods will be demonstrated through simulation studies and real examples.
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Authors who are presenting talks have a * after their name.
