Many researchers worry about violations of the proportional hazards assumption when comparing treatments in a randomized study. Besides the fact that this frequently makes them turn to a much worse approach, the harm done by violations of the proportional odds assumption usually do not prevent the proportional odds model from providing a reasonable treatment effect assessment.

This article discusses issues with unadjusted effect ratios such as odds ratios and hazard ratios, showing a simple example of non-generalizability of unadjusted odds ratios.

This article summarizes arguments for the claim that the primary analysis of treatment effect in a RCT should be with adjustment for baseline covariates. It reiterates some findings and statements from classic papers, with illustration on the GUSTO-I trial.

The COVID-19 pandemic has elevated the challenge for designing and executing clinical trials with vaccines and drug/device combinations within a substantially shortened time frame. Numerous challenges in designing COVID-19 trials include lack of prior data for candidate interventions / vaccines due to the novelty of the disease, evolving standard of care and sense of urgency to speed up development programmes. We propose sequential and adaptive Bayesian trial designs to help address the challenges inherent in COVID-19 trials. In the Bayesian framework, several methodologies can be implemented to address the complexity of the primary endpoint choice. Different options could be used for the primary analysis of the WHO Severity Scale, frequently used in COVID-19 trials. We propose the longitudinal proportional odds mixed effects model using the WHO Severity Scale ordinal scale. This enables efficient utilization of all clinical information to optimize sample sizes and maximize the rate of acquiring evidence about treatment effects and harms.

This article explains how the generalizability of randomized trial findings depends primarily on whether and how patient characteristics modify (interact with) the treatment effect. For an observational study this will be related to overlap in the propensity to receive treatment.

This presentation covers several ways to make clinical trials more efficient and to reduce the chance of ending with an equivocal …

Continuous learning from data and computation of probabilities that are directly applicable to decision making in the face of …

This talk covers a variety of controversial and/or current issues related to statistical modeling and prediction research. Some of the …

Health researchers and practicing clinicians are with increasing frequency hearing about machine learning (ML) and artificial …

Continuous learning from data and computation of probabilities that are directly applicable to decision making in the face of …