Affiliation:
1. Findomestic Banca, Florence, Italy
2. Department of Methodology and Statistics, Utrecht University, the Netherlands
Abstract
One of the main questions in the design of a trial is how many subjects should be assigned to each treatment condition. Previous research has shown that equal randomization is not necessarily the best choice. We study the optimal allocation for a novel trial design, the sequential multiple assignment randomized trial, where subjects receive a sequence of treatments across various stages. A subject's randomization probabilities to treatments in the next stage depend on whether he or she responded to treatment in the current stage. We consider a prototypical sequential multiple assignment randomized trial design with two stages. Within such a design, many pairwise comparisons of treatment sequences can be made, and a multiple-objective optimal design strategy is proposed to consider all such comparisons simultaneously. The optimal design is sought under either a fixed total sample size or a fixed budget. A Shiny App is made available to find the optimal allocations and to evaluate the efficiency of competing designs. As the optimal design depends on the response rates to first-stage treatments, maximin optimal design methodology is used to find robust optimal designs. The proposed methodology is illustrated using a sequential multiple assignment randomized trial example on weight loss management.
Subject
Health Information Management,Statistics and Probability,Epidemiology
Cited by
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