Leveraging Historical Data for High-Dimensional Regression Adjustment, a Composite Covariate Approach

03/26/2021
by   Samuel Branders, et al.
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The amount of data collected from patients involved in clinical trials is continuously growing. All patient characteristics are potential covariates that could be used to improve clinical trial analysis and power. However, the restricted number of patients in phases I and II studies limits the possible number of covariates included in the analyses. In this paper, we investigate the cost/benefit ratio of including covariates in the analysis of clinical trials. Within this context, we address the long-running question "What is the optimum number of covariates to include in a clinical trial?" To further improve the cost/benefit ratio of covariates, historical data can be leveraged to pre-specify the covariate weights, which can be viewed as the definition of a new composite covariate. We analyze the use of a composite covariate while estimating the treatment effect in small clinical trials. A composite covariate limits the loss of degrees of freedom and the risk of overfitting.

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