Blind 2Stage [Two-Stage / GS Designs]

posted by Helmut Homepage – Vienna, Austria, 2019-05-30 14:56 (2012 d 03:49 ago) – Posting: # 20306
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Hi Nastia,

❝ But can you clarify me the meaning of blindness in BE trials?


You know its meaning. ;-)
Never seen ones, except for Health Canada:

2.4.2 Blinding
To avoid study bias, comparative bioavailability studies should be conducted in such a way that the subjects are not aware of which product (test or reference) is being administered.


That’s a funny idea if the products don’t look the same.

❝ […] it turns out that blinding may even worse the situation (5.01% vs 7.36%, TIE). It is connected with the unknown PE (cause for BLIND=TRUE s20s<-mses), but isn't it contrintuitive?


Yes and yes. Have a look at Figure 1 of Golkowski et al.*

❝ Can it be true for parallel design also? Suppose we want to make a blind interim analyses after first stage with N subjects and recalculate sample size on fixed GMR=0.95 if total CV would be greater than initial suggestion. Will it cause any inflation?


Possibly.

❝ How to estimate it?


Simulations… Might be tricky cause we have to think about unequal group sizes and/or variances.

BTW, do you remember Paola Coppola’s presentation at last year’s BioBridges?

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