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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 12.
Published in final edited form as: J Biopharm Stat. 2014 Jun 6;25(5):903–920. doi: 10.1080/10543406.2014.920873

Table 1.

Possible dose-efficacy relationships for I = 4 dose levels.

Shape of relationship Location of node Possible Dose-efficacy relationship

Unimodal or plateau d1 πE(d4) ≤ πE(d3) ≤ πE(d2) ≤ πE(d1)
Unimodal or plateau d2 πE(d1) ≤ πE(d3) ≤ πE(d4) ≤ πE(d2)
Unimodal or plateau d3 πE(d1) ≤ πE(d2) ≤ πE(d4) ≤ πE(d3)
Unimodal d4 πE(d1) ≤ πE(d2) ≤ πE(d3) ≤ πE(d4)