Use of a two-sided tolerance interval in the design and evaluation of biosimilarity in clinical studies

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In assessing biosimilarity between two products, the question to ask is always "How similar is similar?" Traditionally, the equivalence of the means between products is the primary consideration in a clinical trial. This study suggests an alternative assessment for testing a certain percentage of the population of differences lying within a prespecified interval. In doing so, the accuracy and precision are assessed simultaneously by judging whether a two-sided tolerance interval falls within a prespecified acceptance range. We further derive an asymptotic distribution of the tolerance limits to determine the sample size for achieving a targeted level of power. Our numerical study shows that the proposed two-sided tolerance interval test controls the type I error rate and provides sufficient power. A real example is presented to illustrate our proposed approach.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:20

Enthalten in:

Pharmaceutical statistics - 20(2021), 1 vom: 07. Jan., Seite 175-184

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Chiang, Chieh [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Chi-Tian [VerfasserIn]
Hsiao, Chin-Fu [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Biosimilarity
Journal Article
Sample size determination
Two-sided tolerance interval

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 25.11.2021

Date Revised 31.05.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1002/pst.2065

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314429719