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Estimating the Optimal Time to Perform a Positron Emission Tomography With Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen in Prostatectomized Patients, Based on Data From Clinical Practice 基于临床实践的数据估计前列腺切除术患者进行前列腺特异性膜抗原正电子发射断层扫描的最佳时间

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Biometrical Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-22 DOI: 10.1002/bimj.70058

Martina Amongero, Gianluca Mastrantonio, Stefano De Luca, Mauro Gasparini

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Issue Information: Biometrical Journal 3'25 期刊信息：bioometic Journal 3'25

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Biometrical Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-12 DOI: 10.1002/bimj.70060

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Semi-Markov Multistate Modeling Approaches for Multicohort Event History Data 多队列事件历史数据的半马尔可夫多状态建模方法

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Biometrical Journal Pub Date : 2025-05-08 DOI: 10.1002/bimj.70051

Xavier Piulachs, Klaus Langohr, Mireia Besalú, Natàlia Pallarès, Jordi Carratalà, Cristian Tebé, Guadalupe Gómez Melis

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How Should Parallel Cluster Randomized Trials With a Baseline Period be Analyzed?—A Survey of Estimands and Common Estimators 有基线期的平行群随机试验应该如何分析？-估价及一般估价员概览

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Biometrical Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1002/bimj.70052

Kenneth Menglin Lee, Fan Li

{"title":"How Should Parallel Cluster Randomized Trials With a Baseline Period be Analyzed?—A Survey of Estimands and Common Estimators","authors":"Kenneth Menglin Lee, Fan Li","doi":"10.1002/bimj.70052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.70052","url":null,"abstract":"The parallel cluster randomized trial with baseline (PB-CRT) is a common variant of the standard parallel cluster randomized trial (P-CRT). We define two natural estimands in the context of PB-CRTs with informative cluster sizes, the individual-average treatment effect (iATE) and cluster-average treatment effect (cATE), to address individual and cluster-level hypotheses. In this work, we theoretically derive the convergence of the unweighted and inverse cluster-period size weighted (i) independence estimating equation (IEE), (ii) fixed-effects (FE) model, (iii) exchangeable mixed-effects (EME) model, and (iv) nested-exchangeable mixed-effects (NEME) model treatment effect estimators in a PB-CRT with informative cluster sizes and continuous outcomes. Overall, we theoretically show that the unweighted and weighted IEE and FE models yield consistent estimators for the iATE and cATE estimands. Although mixed-effects models yield inconsistent estimators to these two natural estimands under informative cluster sizes, we empirically demonstrate that the EME model is surprisingly robust to bias. This is in sharp contrast to the corresponding analyses in P-CRTs and the NEME model in PB-CRTs when informative cluster sizes are present, carrying implications for practice. We report a simulation study and conclude with a re-analysis of a PB-CRT examining the effects of community youth teams on improving mental health among adolescent girls in rural eastern India.","PeriodicalId":55360,"journal":{"name":"Biometrical Journal","volume":"67 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bimj.70052","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143889149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Bayesian Inference of Phenotypic Plasticity of Cancer Cells Based on Dynamic Model for Temporal Cell Proportion Data 基于时间细胞比例数据动态模型的癌细胞表型可塑性贝叶斯推断

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Biometrical Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1002/bimj.70055

Shuli Chen, Yuman Wang, Da Zhou, Jie Hu

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A Regularized MANOVA Test for Semicontinuous High-Dimensional Data 半连续高维数据的正则化方差检验

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Biometrical Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-29 DOI: 10.1002/bimj.70054

Elena Sabbioni, Claudio Agostinelli, Alessio Farcomeni

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Impact of Methodological Assumptions and Covariates on the Cutoff Estimation in ROC Analysis 方法假设和协变量对ROC分析中截止估计的影响

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Biometrical Journal Pub Date : 2025-04-27 DOI: 10.1002/bimj.70053

Soutik Ghosal

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On Sample Size Determination for Augmented Tests Based on Restricted Mean Survival Time in Randomized Clinical Trials 随机临床试验中基于限制平均生存时间的增强试验的样本量确定

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Biometrical Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1002/bimj.70046

Satoshi Hattori, Hajime Uno

{"title":"On Sample Size Determination for Augmented Tests Based on Restricted Mean Survival Time in Randomized Clinical Trials","authors":"Satoshi Hattori, Hajime Uno","doi":"10.1002/bimj.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.70046","url":null,"abstract":"Restricted mean survival time (RMST) is gaining attention as a measure to quantify the treatment effect on survival outcomes in randomized clinical trials. Several methods to determine sample size based on the RMST-based tests have been proposed. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no discussion about the power and sample size regarding the augmented version of RMST-based tests, which utilize baseline covariates for a gain in estimation efficiency and in power for testing no treatment effect. The conventional event-driven study design based on the logrank test allows us to calculate the power for a given hazard ratio without specifying the survival functions. In contrast, the existing sample size determination methods for the RMST-based tests relies on the adequacy of the assumptions of the entire survival curves of two groups. Furthermore, to handle the augmented test, the correlation between the baseline covariates and the martingale residuals must be handled. To address these issues, we propose an approximated sample size formula for the augmented version of the RMST-based test, which does not require specifying the entire survival curve in the treatment group, and also a sample size recalculation approach to update the correlations between the baseline covariates and the martingale residuals with the blinded data. The proposed procedure will enable the studies to have the target power for a given RMST difference even when correct survival functions cannot be specified at the design stage.","PeriodicalId":55360,"journal":{"name":"Biometrical Journal","volume":"67 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bimj.70046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Editorial for the Special Collection “MCP 2022” 《MCP 2022》特辑社论

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Biometrical Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-24 DOI: 10.1002/bimj.70047

Werner Brannath, Thorsten Dickhaus, Ruth Heller, Jesse Hemerik

{"title":"Editorial for the Special Collection “MCP 2022”","authors":"Werner Brannath, Thorsten Dickhaus, Ruth Heller, Jesse Hemerik","doi":"10.1002/bimj.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.70047","url":null,"abstract":"This special collection on Multiple Comparisons arose from the 12th International Conference on Multiple Comparison Procedures (MCP 2022) that took place from August 30 to September 2, 2022, at the University of Bremen, Germany. The conference was hosted locally by Professors Werner Brannath and Thorsten Dickhaus. MCP 2022 continued the tradition of this conference series. The contributions to the conference covered the latest methodological and applied developments in the areas of simultaneous and selective inference, including testing, confidence intervals, estimation, adaptive designs, statistical modelling, and machine learning approaches, under a variety of error rates to be controlled.This article collection contains theoretical papers on multiple comparisons by Budig et al. (2024), Chen et al. (2024), Pöhlmann et al. (2024), and by Ochieng et al. (2024). Several sessions of MCP 2022 included contributions dealing with online control of the family-wise error rate or the false discovery rate, respectively. The papers by Fischer et al. (2024) and by Fisher (2024) in this special collection reflect this current research direction. Bounding the number or the proportion, respectively, of false discoveries is considered in the papers by Xu et al. (2024) and by Zheng et al. (2024). Statistical methods for planning and evaluating studies with adaptive or group-sequential designs are developed in the papers by Danzer et al. (2024) and by Zhao et al. (2025), and platform trials are studied by Greenstreet et al. (2025).After the long time without face-to-face meetings because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the conference delegates (Figure 1) enjoyed the social program of MCP 2022, which included an evening reception in Bremen's historic Town Hall as well as a boat trip to Bremerhaven.","PeriodicalId":55360,"journal":{"name":"Biometrical Journal","volume":"67 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/bimj.70047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143689720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Shared Weighted Lindley Frailty Model for Clustered Failure Time Data 聚类故障时间数据的共享加权Lindley脆弱性模型

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Biometrical Journal Pub Date : 2025-03-19 DOI: 10.1002/bimj.70044

Diego I. Gallardo, Marcelo Bourguignon, John L. Santibáñez

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