PARIVAR-CT: Patients-at-Risk integrated with Variance reduction for Clinical Trials

Mohammed Shahid Abdulla () and Ramprasath L ()
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Mohammed Shahid Abdulla: Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode
Ramprasath L: Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

No 558, Working papers from Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

Abstract: Allocation of incoming subjects into a clinical trial has the potential of causing high-variance outcomes as opposed to an expected allocation calculated apriori using estimators and trial design guidelines. This presents an ethical risk since a larger-than-expected fraction of subjects may be randomized to the drug (or placebo) with poor outcomes. Earlier, a framework known as Patients-at-Risk (PaR) was proposed to choose one clinical trial design decisively over another based on simple statistical metrics obtained via simulation. In this work, we first propose a new allocation function termed cascaded allocation using ? (CAR) for an incoming subject to reduce the final variance of the allocation. Next, we modify CAR to further reduce the possibility of an ethically poor outcome, i.e. allocating a subject to the trial arm that is currently unfavourable - thus reducing PaR. We show analytical and empirical results for both the reducedvariance allocation algorithm as well as the low-PaR variant, i.e. PARIVAR-CT.

Keywords: hypothesis testing; clinical trials; randomized controlled trials. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-03
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