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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 10.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2015 Jan 28;34(10):1721–1732. doi: 10.1002/sim.6443

Table 4.

Selection percentage and the average number of patients (shown in parentheses) treated at each dose level under the proposed design and EffTox 1 and 2 designs for scenarios 1, 2, and 3, with no dropout. The bolded numbers are target doses.

Design Dose level Duration
(months)

1 2 3 4 5
Scenario 1
E, πT) (0.42, 0.05) (0.45, 0.45) (0.46, 0.65) (0.47, 0.75) (0.48, 0.85)
Proposed 80.4 (27.3) 15.9 (20.1) 0.1 (2.3) 0.0 (0.2) 0.0 (0.0) 24.3
EffTox1 77.3 (26.1) 20.1 (20.7) 0.1 (3.0) 0.0 (0.3) 0.0 (0.0) 47.7
EffTox2 77.3 (26.1) 20.1 (20.7) 0.1 (3.0) 0.0 (0.3) 0.0 (0.0) 47.7
Scenario 2
E, πT) (0.41, 0.03) (0.48, 0.13) (0.56, 0.45) (0.63, 0.77) (0.7, 0.89)
Proposed 3.0 (4.9) 83.7 (28.4) 12.8 (16.0) 0.1 (1.5) 0.0 (0.0) 25.8
EffTox1 2.1 (4.3) 87.4 (27.7) 10.4 (16.5) 0.0 (2.3) 0.0 (0.1) 47.1
EffTox2 2.1 (4.3) 87.4 (27.7) 10.4 (16.5) 0.0 (2.3) 0.0 (0.1) 47.1
Scenario 3
E, πT) (0.3, 0.01) (0.36, 0.05) (0.43, 0.17) (0.51, 0.45) (0.6, 0.77)
Proposed 1.3 (3.9) 6.6 (6.6) 80.5 (26.0) 10.2 (12.9) 0.0 (1.3) 27.3
EffTox1 0.6 (3.5) 4.1 (5.6) 84.8 (26.0) 9.8 (13.6) 0.0 (2.0) 48.0
EffTox2 0.6 (3.5) 4.1 (5.6) 84.8 (26.0) 9.8 (13.6) 0.0 (2.0) 48.0