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Lili Tian¹, Xinmin Li, Li Yan

¹Department of Biostatistics, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 14214-3000, USA. ltian@buffalo.edu

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This study introduces a new statistical test for comparing generalized treatment effects across multiple clinical trials. The proposed method demonstrates reliable performance, especially for smaller sample sizes and categorical data.

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Area of Science:

Biostatistics
Clinical Trial Methodology
Statistical Inference

Background:

Generalized treatment effect, defined as P(X > Y), is a robust measure for parallel-design clinical trials, offering advantages over mean differences like scale-independence.
Existing methods for comparing treatment effects may not be optimal for the generalized treatment effect, necessitating new statistical approaches.
Comparing generalized treatment effects across multiple trials is crucial for meta-analysis and synthesizing evidence.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop and evaluate a statistical method for testing the equality of generalized treatment effects among several parallel-design clinical trials.
To adapt the generalized variable method, previously used for log-normal means, to the context of generalized treatment effects.

Main Methods:

The study proposes a novel approach based on the generalized variable method to test for equality of generalized treatment effects.
The method is applied to compare P(X > Y) across multiple independent clinical trials.
Numerical simulations and robustness studies were conducted to assess the performance of the proposed test.

Main Results:

The proposed test exhibits excellent control of type I error rates, particularly in clinical trials with small to medium sample sizes.
Robustness evaluations indicate that the method performs reasonably well even when applied to categorical data.
The approach provides a statistically sound framework for meta-analyzing generalized treatment effects.

Conclusions:

The developed statistical test offers a reliable method for assessing the equality of generalized treatment effects in multi-trial settings.
The proposed method is suitable for various sample sizes and demonstrates robustness for categorical outcomes.
This work contributes to the advancement of statistical methods for clinical trial analysis and evidence synthesis.