CohortPlat: Simulation of cohort platform trials investigating combination therapies

02/04/2022
by   Elias Laurin Meyer, et al.
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Platform trials have gained a lot of attention recently as a possible remedy for time-consuming classical two-arm randomized controlled trials, especially in early phase drug development. This short article illustrates how to use the CohortPlat R package to simulate a cohort platform trial, where each cohort consists of a combination treatment and the respective monotherapies and standard-of-care. The endpoint is always assumed to be binary. The package offers extensive flexibility with respect to both platform trial trajectories, as well as treatment effect scenarios and decision rules. As a special feature, the package provides a designated function for running multiple such simulations efficiently in parallel and saving the results in a concise manner. Many illustrations of code usage are provided.

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