The effect of variability and carryover on average bioequivalence assessment: A simulation study
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of residual variability and carryover on average bioequivalence (ABE) studies performed under a 2×2 crossover design. ABE is usually assessed by means of the confidence interval inclusion principle. Here, the interval under consideration was the s...
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Published in | Pharmaceutical statistics : the journal of the pharmaceutical industry Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 135 - 142 |
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Main Authors | , , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Chichester, UK
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
01.03.2011
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Summary: | The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of residual variability and carryover on average bioequivalence (ABE) studies performed under a 2×2 crossover design. ABE is usually assessed by means of the confidence interval inclusion principle. Here, the interval under consideration was the standard ‘shortest’ interval, which is the mainstream approach in practice.
The evaluation was performed by means of a simulation study under different combinations of carryover and residual variability besides of formulation effect and sample size. The evaluation was made in terms of percentage of ABE declaration, coverage and interval precision.
As is well known, high levels of variability distort the ABE procedures, particularly its type II error control (i.e. high variabilities make difficult to declare bioequivalence when it holds). The effect of carryover is modulated by variability and is especially disturbing for the type I error control. In the presence of carryover, the risk of erroneously declaring bioequivalence may become high, especially for low variabilities and large sample sizes. We end up with some hints concerning the controversy about pretesting for carryover before performing ABE analysis. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Bibliography: | istex:EACA1995BCF7C6AAFA39A647856148606DA161B0 ark:/67375/WNG-CG6L9989-S ArticleID:PST431 ObjectType-Article-1 SourceType-Scholarly Journals-1 ObjectType-Feature-2 content type line 23 |
ISSN: | 1539-1604 1539-1612 |
DOI: | 10.1002/pst.431 |