Optimal designs for group sequential clinical trials

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 361-379

  Chang, Myron N ^a  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Admissible design; Average sample size; Backward induction; Bayes solution; Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0344723328     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929608831700     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Eales, J.D. and Jennison, C. (1992). An improved method for deriving optimal one-sided group sequential tests. Biometrika 79, 13-24.
2. Emerson, S.S. and Fleming, T.R. (1989). Symmetric group sequential designs. Biometrics 45, 905-923.
3. Jennison, C. (1987). Efficient group sequential tests with unpredictable group sizes. Biometrika 74, 155-165.
4. Jennison, C. and Turnbull, B.W. (1989). Interim analyses: the repeated confidence interval approach. J.R. Statist. Soc. B 51, 305-361.
5. Kiefer, J. and Weiss, L. (1957). Some properties of generalized sequential probability ratio tests. Ann. Math. Statist., 28, 57-74.
6. Lehman, E.L. (1959). Testing Statistical Hypotheses. New York: Wiley
7. O'Brien, P.C. and Fleming, T.R. (1979). A multiple testing procedure for clinical trials. Biometrics 35, 549-556.
8. Pocock, S.J. (1977). Group sequential methods in the design and analysis of clinical trials. Biometrika 64, 191-199.
9. Pocock, S.J. (1982). Interim analyses for clinical trials: the group sequential approach. Biometrics 38, 153-162.
10. Therneau, T.M., Wieand, H.S. and Chang, M.N. (1990). Optimal designs for a group sequential binomial trials. Biometrics 46, 771-781.
11. Wang, S.K. and Tsiatis, A.A. (1987). Approximately optimal one-parameter boundaries for group sequential trials. Biometrics 43, 193-199.
12. Weiss, L. (1962). Sequential tests which minimize the maximum expected sample size. JASA 57, 551-556.