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Bayesian logistic regression model with optional EXchangeability-NonEXchangeability parameter modelling for flexible borrowing from historical or concurrent data-sources. The safety model can guide dose-escalation decisions for adaptive Oncology phase I dose-escalation trials which involve an arbitrary number of drugs.

Global Options

OptionDefaultDescription
OncoBayes2.MC.warmup1000MCMC warmup iterations
OncoBayes2.MC.iter2000total MCMC iterations
OncoBayes2.MC.save_warmupTRUEsave warmup samples
OncoBayes2.MC.chains4MCMC chains
OncoBayes2.MC.thin1MCMC thinning
OncoBayes2.MC.controllist(adapt_delta=0.99,sets control argument for Stan call
stepsize=0.1)
OncoBayes2.MC.backendrstanBackend used to run Stan (rstan or cmdstanr)
OncoBayes2.abbreviate.min0Minimal length of variable names
when abbreviating variable names.
The default 0 disables abbreviation.

References

Neuenschwander B, Roychoudhury S, Schmidli H (2016). “On the use of co-data in clinical trials.” Statistics in Biopharmaceutical Research, 8(3), 345–354. doi:10.1080/19466315.2016.1174149 .

Neuenschwander B, Wandel S, Roychoudhury S, Bailey S (2016). “Robust exchangeability designs for early phase clinical trials with multiple strata.” Pharmaceutical Statistics, 15(2), 123–134. doi:10.1002/pst.1730 .

Neuenschwander B, Branson M, Gsponer T (2008). “Critical aspects of the Bayesian approach to phase I cancer trials.” Statistics in Medicine, 27(13), 2420–2439. doi:10.1002/sim.3230 .

Neuenschwander B, Matano A, Tang Z, Roychoudhury S, Wandel S, Bailey S (2014). “A Bayesian Industry Approach to Phase I Combination Trials in Oncology.” In Statistical Methods in Drug Combination Studies, volume 69. CRC Press. doi:10.1201/b17965-9 .

Stan Development Team (2024). RStan: the R interface to Stan. R package version 2.32.6. https://mc-stan.org

Author

Maintainer: Sebastian Weber sebastian.weber@novartis.com

Authors:

Other contributors:

  • Novartis Pharma AG [copyright holder]

  • Trustees of Columbia University (R/stanmodels.R, configure, configure.win) [copyright holder]