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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Trials. 2021 Jan 21;18(3):303–313. doi: 10.1177/1740774520981939

Table 1:

Module options currently implemented in the seamless design trial simulator. The option names are in bold, and the names immediately below each option, which follow the ‘$’ symbol, give the inputs required for that option.

Stage 1 Stage 2
Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 4
crm bayes crm bayes
$n $prob_threshold $n $prob_threshold
$skeleton $prob_means $skeleton $prob_means
$starting_dose $prior_n_per $beta_scale $prior_n_per
$beta_scale $dose_cohort_size $include_stage1_data
$dose_cohort_size $dose_cohort_size_first_only
$dose_cohort_size_first_only $earliest_stop
$earliest_stop
3pl3 bayes_isoreg 3pl3 bayes_isoreg
$starting_dose $prob_threshold $prob_threshold
$alpha_scale $alpha_scale
$include_stage1_data
empiric inverted_score empiric inverted_score
$n $ci_level_onesided $n $ci_level_onesided
$starting_dose $rule $include_stage1_data
$rule $first_patient_look
$first_patient_look $thresh_decrease
$thresh_decrease
fixed min_num_resp fixed min_num_resp
$n $number $n $number
$starting_dose $include_stage1_data
min_pct_resp continume_crm min_pct_resp
$percent $n $percent
$include_stage1_data
none none none

these arguments are optional if module 1 is crm. If this is the case and these arguments are not provided, the module 1 options will be used.

this option can only be selected if module 1 is crm because this indicates a simple continuation of that crm