A roadmap to using randomization in clinical trials

VW Berger, LJ Bour, K Carter, JJ Chipman… - BMC medical research …, 2021 - Springer
Background Randomization is the foundation of any clinical trial involving treatment
comparison. It helps mitigate selection bias, promotes similarity of treatment groups with …

Optimal treatment allocation for efficient policy evaluation in sequential decision making

T Li, C Shi, J Wang, F Zhou - Advances in Neural …, 2024 - proceedings.neurips.cc
A/B testing is critical for modern technological companies to evaluate the effectiveness of
newly developed products against standard baselines. This paper studies optimal designs …

E-validation–Unleashing AI for validation

T Hartung, A Maertens, T Luechtefeld - ALTEX-Alternatives to animal …, 2024 - altex.org
The validation of new approach methods (NAMs) in toxicology faces significant challenges,
including the integration of diverse data, selection of appropriate reference chemicals, and …

Cluster randomized trials designed to support generalizable inferences

SE Robertson, JA Steingrimsson… - Evaluation …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
When planning a cluster randomized trial, evaluators often have access to an enumerated
cohort representing the target population of clusters. Practicalities of conducting the trial …

Optimal design of galvanic vestibular stimulation for patients with vestibulopathy and cerebellar disorders

TT Nguyen, SB Lee, JJ Kang, SY Oh - Brain Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Objectives: Galvanic vestibular stimulation (GVS) has shown positive outcomes in various
neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as enhancing postural balance and cognitive …

Pharmacometrics meets statistics—A synergy for modern drug development

Y Ryeznik, O Sverdlov, EM Svensson… - CPT …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Modern drug development problems are very complex and require integration of various
scientific fields. Traditionally, statistical methods have been the primary tool for design and …

Optimum designs for clinical trials in personalized medicine when response variance depends on treatment

BPM Duarte, AC Atkinson - Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
We study optimal designs for clinical trials when the value of the response and its variance
depend on treatment and covariates are included in the response model. Such designs are …

D-optimal approximate design for binary regression and quantal response in toxicology studies

EH Cui - arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.13191, 2022 - arxiv.org
We provide a systematic treatment of $ D $-optimal design for binary regression and quantal
response models in toxicology studies. For the two-parameter case, we provide an analytical …

Robust multi-stage model-based design of optimal experiments for nonlinear estimation

ARG Mukkula, M Mateáš, M Fikar, R Paulen - Computers & Chemical …, 2021 - Elsevier
We study approaches to the robust model-based design of experiments in the context of
maximum-likelihood estimation. These approaches provide robustification of model-based …

Adaptive designs in public health: Vaccine and cluster randomized trials go Bayesian

O Harari, JJH Park, PK Lat, EJ Mills - Statistics in Medicine, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Clinical trials in public health—particularly those conducted in low‐and middle‐income
countries—often involve communicable and non‐communicable diseases with high disease …