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- Title
Linear mixed-effects models for central statistical monitoring of multicenter clinical trials.
- Authors
Desmet, L.; Venet, D.; Doffagne, E.; Timmermans, C.; Burzykowski, T.; Legrand, C.; Buyse, M.
- Abstract
Multicenter studies are widely used to meet accrual targets in clinical trials. Clinical data monitoring is required to ensure the quality and validity of the data gathered across centers. One approach to this end is central statistical monitoring, which aims at detecting atypical patterns in the data by means of statistical methods. In this context, we consider the simple case of a continuous variable, and we propose a detection procedure based on a linear mixed-effects model to detect location differences between each center and all other centers. We describe the performance of the procedure as a function of contamination rate and signal-to-noise ratio. We investigate the effect of center size and variance structure and illustrate the use of the procedure using data from two multicenter clinical trials. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Publication
Statistics in Medicine, 2014, Vol 33, Issue 30, p5265
- ISSN
0277-6715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sim.6294