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	Conception d'essais cliniques adaptatifs	Essai d'équivalence / non-infériorité
Domaine	Plans d'expériences	Plans d'expériences
Famille	Hypothesis test	Hypothesis test
Année d'origine	1994	1987
Auteur d'origine	Bauer & Köhne	Schuirmann, D.J. / EMA regulatory framework
Type	Adaptive hypothesis test with interim analyses	Parametric equivalence / non-inferiority test
Source fondatrice	Bauer, P. & Köhne, K. (1994). Evaluation of Experiments with Adaptive Interim Analyses. Biometrics, 50(4), 1029–1041.	Schuirmann, D.J. (1987). A Comparison of the Two One-Sided Tests Procedure and the Power Approach. Journal of Pharmacokinetics and Biopharmaceutics, 15(6), 657–680.
Alias	adaptive design, group sequential design, sample size re-estimation, platform trial	non-inferiority trial, bioequivalence study, active-control trial, Denklik ve Üstünlük Olmayan Çalışma (Equivalence / Non-Inferiority)
Apparentées	3	6
Résumé	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.	An equivalence or non-inferiority trial is a clinical study design that tests whether a new intervention is clinically equivalent to, or no worse than, an established standard by a pre-specified margin. Codified in Schuirmann's 1987 Two One-Sided Tests (TOST) framework and embedded in EMA and FDA regulatory guidance, this design is the regulatory standard for generic drug approval and medical device testing.