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1Yunnan Key Laboratory of Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis, Yunnan University, Kunming, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
A three-arm trial including an experimental treatment, an active reference treatment and a placebo is often used to assess the non-inferiority (NI) with assay sensitivity of an experimental treatment. Various hypothesis-test-based approaches via a fraction or pre-specified margin have been proposed to assess the NI with assay sensitivity in a three-arm trial. There is little work done on confidence interval in a three-arm trial. This paper develops a hybrid approach to construct simultaneous confidence interval for assessing NI and assay sensitivity in a three-arm trial. For comparison, we present normal-approximation-based and bootstrap-resampling-based simultaneous confidence intervals. Simulation studies evidence that the hybrid approach with the Wilson score statistic performs better than other approaches in terms of empirical coverage probability and mesial-non-coverage probability. An example is used to illustrate the proposed approaches.
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