Covariate-adaptive designs with missing covariates in clinical trials

Many covariate-adaptive randomization procedures have been proposed and implemented to balance important covariates in clinical trials. These methods are usually based on fully observed covariates. In practice,the covariates of a patient are often partially missing. We propose a novel covariate-adap...

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Published in:Science China. Mathematics 2015-06, Vol.58 (6), p.1191-1202
Main Authors: Liu, ZhongQiang, Yin, JianXin, Hu, FeiFang
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Applications of Mathematics
Balancing
China
Mathematical analysis
Mathematics
Mathematics and Statistics
Medical research
Patients
Randomization
Simulation
不平衡
临床试验
依赖性
利润率
协变量
平衡重
自适应设计
适应性
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Summary:Many covariate-adaptive randomization procedures have been proposed and implemented to balance important covariates in clinical trials. These methods are usually based on fully observed covariates. In practice,the covariates of a patient are often partially missing. We propose a novel covariate-adaptive design to deal with missing covariates and study its properties. For the proposed design, we show that as the number of patients increases, the overall imbalance, observed margin imbalance and fully observed stratum imbalance are bounded in probability. Under certain covariate-dependent missing mechanism, the proposed design can balance missing covariates as if the covariates are observed. Finally, we explore our methods and theoretical findings through simulations.
ISSN:1674-7283
1869-1862
DOI:10.1007/s11425-014-4938-4