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Fulvio De Santis1, Stefania Gubbiotti1
1Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Sapienza University of Rome, Roma, Italy.
Abstract:
Non-inferiority vaccine trials compare new candidates to active controls that provide clinically significant protection against a disease. Bayesian statistics allows to exploit pre-experimental information available from previous studies to increase precision and reduce costs. Here, historical knowledge is incorporated into the analysis through a power prior that dynamically regulates the degree of information-borrowing. We examine non-inferiority tests based on credible intervals for the unknown effects-difference between two vaccines on the log odds ratio scale, with an application to new Covid-19 vaccines. We explore the frequentist properties of the method and we address the sample size determination problem.
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