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ReviewThe AAPS journal2019

On the Comparison of Methods in Analyzing Bounded Outcome Score Data.

Chuanpu Hu

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Review in The AAPS journal, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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1 author.

Chuanpu HuClinical Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics, Janssen Research & Development, LLC, 1400 McKean Road, PO Box 776, Spring House, Pennsylvania, 19477, USA. CHu25@its.jnj.com.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Clinical trial endpoints often take the form of bounded outcome scores (BOS) which report a discrete set of values on a finite range. Conceptually such endpoints are ordered categorical in nature, but in practice they are often analyzed as continuous variables, which may result in data range violations and difficulties to handle data skewness. Analysis methods dedicated for BOS data have been proposed; however, much confusion exists among pharmacometricians on how to compare the possible methods. This commentary reviews the main methods used in pharmacometrics applications and discusses their theoretical and practical comparisons. The expected performance of some conceptually appealing methods in different situations is discussed, and a guideline is provided on selecting analysis methods in practice.

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Data Interpretation, StatisticalClinical Trials as TopicComputer SimulationEndpoint DeterminationHumanscategorical datalikelihoodmodel selectionnonlinear mixed-effects modelingtransformation

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