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Modestly weighted logrank tests

We propose a new class of weighted logrank tests (WLRTs) that control the risk of concluding that a new drug is more efficacious than standard of care, when, in fact, it is uniformly inferior. Perhaps surprisingly, this risk is not controlled for …

Sample Size Reassessment and Hypothesis Testing in Adaptive Survival Trials

Mid-study design modifications are becoming increasingly accepted in confirmatory clinical trials, so long as appropriate methods are applied such that error rates are controlled. It is therefore unfortunate that the important case of time-to-event …

A generalized Dunnett test for multi-arm multi-stage clinical studies with treatment selection

We generalize the Dunnett test to derive efficacy and futility boundaries for a flexible multi-arm multi-stage clinical trial for a normally distributed endpoint with known variance. We show that the boundaries control the familywise error rate in …