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Table 2 Summary of Simulation Results

From: Benefits, challenges and obstacles of adaptive clinical trial designs

Design

# Patients Expected (N)

# of DLT Expected

Mean MTD (SD)

Prob. of Selecting Correct MTD

"3+3"

TER

15.96

2.8

1.26 (0.33)

0.526

"3+3"

STER*

17.56

3.2

1.02 (0.30)

0.204

CRM(1)

10.60

3.4

1.51 (0.08)

0.984

CRM(2)

13.57

2.8

1.57 (0.20)

0.884

CRM(3)

16.37

2.7

1.63 (0.26)

0.784

  1. * Allows dose de-escalation
  2. CRM(n) = CRM with n patients per dose level; Uniform prior was used.