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| Journal Article | DKFZ-2023-02586 |
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2024
Wiley-VCH
Berlin
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Please use a persistent id in citations: doi:10.1002/bimj.202200322
Abstract: Bayesian clinical trials can benefit from available historical information through the specification of informative prior distributions. Concerns are however often raised about the potential for prior-data conflict and the impact of Bayes test decisions on frequentist operating characteristics, with particular attention being assigned to inflation of type I error (TIE) rates. This motivates the development of principled borrowing mechanisms, that strike a balance between frequentist and Bayesian decisions. Ideally, the trust assigned to historical information defines the degree of robustness to prior-data conflict one is willing to sacrifice. However, such relationship is often not directly available when explicitly considering inflation of TIE rates. We build on available literature relating frequentist and Bayesian test decisions, and investigate a rationale for inflation of TIE rate which explicitly and linearly relates the amount of borrowing and the amount of TIE rate inflation in one-arm studies. A novel dynamic borrowing mechanism tailored to hypothesis testing is additionally proposed. We show that, while dynamic borrowing prevents the possibility to obtain a simple closed-form TIE rate computation, an explicit upper bound can still be enforced. Connections with the robust mixture prior approach, particularly in relation to the choice of the mixture weight and robust component, are made. Simulations are performed to show the properties of the approach for normal and binomial outcomes, and an exemplary application is demonstrated in a case study.
Keyword(s): Bayesian trial design ; borrowing of historical information ; robust borrowing ; type I error rate
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