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Adaptive Clinical Trial Design

Adaptive clinical trial design is a flexible experimental framework, formalised by Bauer and Köhne in 1994, in which pre-specified rules allow the trial to be modified mid-course — adjusting sample size, treatment arms, or randomisation ratios — based on accumulating interim data while rigorously controlling the Type I error rate.

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Adaptive Design for Clinical Trials
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  • Bauer, P. & Köhne, K. (1994). Evaluation of Experiments with Adaptive Interim Analyses. Biometrics, 50(4), 1029–1041. · DOI 10.2307/2533441
  • FDA (2019). Adaptive Design Clinical Trials for Drugs and Biologics — Guidance for Industry. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. · URL
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