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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jan 5.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Cancer. 2008 Dec 16;45(2):290–299. doi: 10.1016/j.ejca.2008.10.030

Table 2.

Early and Late Phases of Endpoint Validation

Attribute Early Phase Validation Late Phase Validation
Goal Individual patient level outcome prediction Trial level outcome prediction
Setting Single randomized trials or uniformly treated patients from non-randomized trials Meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials
Methods Correlation analyses between endpoints within patients Correlation analyses between trial level effects on both endpoints