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  • Biostatistics
  • Clinical Trial Design
  • Statistical Inference

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  • Response-adaptive randomization balances treatment arms dynamically.
  • Posterior and predictive estimators are crucial for adaptive designs.
  • Binary outcomes are common in clinical trials.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Compare posterior and predictive estimators in adaptive randomization.
  • Evaluate algorithms for predictive probabilities.
  • Analyze optimal and natural lead-in designs.

Main Methods:

  • Simulation studies comparing two- and three-group clinical trials.
  • Assessment of adaptation based on posterior estimates.
  • Implementation of two predictive probability algorithms (traditional and skeptical).

Main Results:

  • Efficacy comparisons yield more adaptation than center comparisons, with some power loss.
  • Skeptically predictive efficacy comparisons and natural lead-in designs reduce adaptation and allocation variability.
  • Adaptive randomization designs influence the power-adaptation trade-off.

Conclusions:

  • Posterior and predictive methods offer different adaptation profiles in clinical trials.
  • Skeptical predictive approaches and natural lead-in designs mitigate allocation variability.
  • Clarification of the power-adaptation trade-off in adaptive randomization designs is provided.