Doubly adaptive biased coin designs with heterogeneous responses |
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Authors: | Liangliang Duan Feifang Hu |
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Institution: | Department of Statistics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4135, USA |
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Abstract: | Doubly adaptive biased coin design (DBCD) is an important family of response-adaptive randomization procedures for clinical trials. It uses sequentially updated estimation to skew the allocation probability to favor the treatment that has performed better thus far. An important assumption for the DBCD is the homogeneity assumption for the patient responses. However, this assumption may be violated in many sequential experiments. Here we prove the robustness of the DBCD against certain time trends in patient responses. Strong consistency and asymptotic normality of the design are obtained under some widely satisfied conditions. Also, we propose a general weighted likelihood method to reduce the bias caused by the heterogeneity in the inference after a trial. Some numerical studies are also presented to illustrate the finite sample properties of DBCD. |
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Keywords: | Response-adaptive randomization Clinical trial Asymptotic normality Doubly adaptive biased coin design Heterogeneity Treatment allocation |
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