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Activity Number: 251 - SPEED: Biopharmaceutical Methods and Application I, Part 2
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, July 29, 2019 : 2:00 PM to 2:45 PM
Sponsor: Biopharmaceutical Section
Abstract #307605
Title: Reducing Misclassification Effect on Dynamic Treatment Regimen (DTR) of Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial Designs (SMART)
Author(s): Jun He* and Roy T Sabo and Donna McClish
Companies: Virginia Commonwealth University and Virginia Commonwealth University and VCU
Keywords: SMART; clinical trial; DTR; Misclassification; Mixture Model; K neearest neighbor
Abstract:

SMART designs tailor individual treatment by re-randomizing patients to subsequent therapies based on their response to initial treatment. We had shown that misclassification of patient responses to initial treatment can lead to inappropriate treatment assignment which can introduce bias to estimates mean, variance, as well as affect statistical inference for DTR. Normal mixture-model (NM) and k-nearest-neighbor (KNN) strategies were investigated to attempt to reduce bias and improve inference at final stage outcome. The early stage probabilities of being correctly classified for each patient in both methods were calculated, and then the outcome of patient observations were weighted by the function of these probabilities. Simulations were used to compare the performance of these approaches. The results showed that both methods moderately reduced bias, but the tradeoff was increased type I error rate and little effect on power.


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