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Many potential new medicines fail in phase III clinical trials, because of either insufficient efficacy or intolerability. Such failures may be caused by the absence of an effect and also if a suboptimal dose is being tested. It is thus important to consider how to optimise the choice of dose or doses that continue into the confirmatory phase. For many indications, it is common to test one single...
Many modern adaptive designs apply an analysis where p‐values from different stages are weighted together to an overall hypothesis test. One merit of this combination approach is that the design can be made very flexible. However, combination tests violate the sufficiency and conditionality principles. As a consequence, combination tests may lead to absurd conclusions, such as ‘proving’ a positive...
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