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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 2.
Published in final edited form as: Stat Med. 2019 Dec 3;39(3):310–325. doi: 10.1002/sim.8402

TABLE 5.

Percentage of patients assigned to each dose level using the marginal, joint, and joint/marginal methods with N=18.

Dose Level
1 2 3 4 5
Scenario 5
Probability of DLT by Clinician 0.05 0.10 0.16 0.25 0.40
Probability of DLT by Patient 0.05 0.20 0.35 0.50 0.65
Probability of DLT by Clinician/Patient 0.10 0.30 0.50 0.65 0.80
% assigned by CRM 11 16 24 27 22
% assigned by PRO-CRM-marginal 16 34 36 12 2
% assigned by PRO-CRM-joint 13 27 37 19 4
% assigned by PRO-CRM-joint/marginal 13 26 37 19 5
Scenario 6
Probability of DLT by Clinician 0.05 0.18 0.20 0.25 0.40
Probability of DLT by Patient 0.17 0.35 0.50 0.65 0.80
Probability of DLT by Clinician/Patient 0.20 0.50 0.65 0.80 0.90
% assigned by CRM 15 23 21 22 19
% assigned by PRO-CRM-marginal 36 45 16 3 0
% assigned by PRO-CRM-joint 25 45 23 6 1
% assigned by PRO-CRM-joint/marginal 26 43 24 6 1
Scenario 7
Probability of DLT by Clinician 0.01 0.05 0.10 0.16 0.25
Probability of DLT by Patient 0.04 0.05 0.20 0.35 0.50
Probability of DLT by Clinician/Patient 0.05 0.10 0.30 0.50 0.65
% assigned by CRM 7 10 16 23 44
% assigned by PRO-CRM-marginal 8 14 32 34 12
% assigned by PRO-CRM-joint 8 11 25 35 21
% assigned by PRO-CRM-joint/marginal 8 11 25 35 21