Estimating correlations between vaccine clinical trial outcomes

Alexey Rey, Olga Rozanova and Sergey Zhuk

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2022, vol. 49, issue 13, 3392-3413

Abstract: We demonstrate how a linear factor model with latent variables can be used to estimate correlations between the outcomes of clinical trials. These correlations are needed for many policy questions of drug/vaccine development (such as calculating the optimal size of financial incentives) and the literature so far has relied on expert opinions. We apply our methodology to the case of vaccines and show that the estimated correlations are highly significant. We also illustrate how the estimated correlations can be used to find the probability of obtaining a successful vaccine out of a certain number of candidates and to determine optimal investment in vaccine development.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2021.1949439

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