Methods for Feature Selection in Down-Selection of Vaccine Regimens Based on Multivariate Immune Response Endpoints

Ying Huang () and Aliasghar Tarkhan
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Ying Huang: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Aliasghar Tarkhan: University of Washington

Statistics in Biosciences, 2020, vol. 12, issue 3, No 7, 353-375

Abstract: Abstract In clinical trials, it is often of interest to compare and order several candidate regimens based on multiple endpoints. For example, in HIV vaccine development, immune response profiles induced by vaccination are key for selecting vaccine regimens to advance to efficacy evaluation. Motivated by the need to rank and choose a few vaccine regimens based on their immunogenicity in phase I trials, Huang et al. (Biostatistics 18(2):230–243, 2017) proposed a ranking/filtering/selection algorithm that down-selects vaccine regimens to satisfy the superiority and non-redundancy criteria, based on multiple immune response endpoints. In practice, many candidate immune response endpoints can be correlated with each other. An important question that remains to be addressed is how to choose a parsimonious set of the available immune response endpoints to effectively compare regimens. In this paper, we propose novel algorithms for selecting immune response endpoints to be used in regimen down-selection, based on importance weights assigned to individual endpoints and their correlation structure. We show through extensive simulation studies that pre-selection of endpoints can substantially improve performance of the subsequent regimen down-selection process. The application of the proposed method is demonstrated using a real example in HIV vaccine research, although the methods are also applicable in general to clinical research for dimension reduction when comparing regimens based on multiple candidate endpoints.

Keywords: Correlation; Down-selection; Feature selection; Importance weight; Measurement error; Vaccine trial (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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