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Advanced Clinical Trials - BCA813
This unit extends and enhances concepts developed in BCA807. On completion, students have the knowledge and skills required at an advanced professional level to design and analyse clinical trials, including cross-over designs and equivalence trials, and to identify and implement statistical methods for trial monitoring and reporting, with appropriate knowledge of regulatory requirements. Topics: Methods in RCTs for determining: stopping rules for interim analyses, spending functions, stochastic curtailment; statistical principles encountered in relation to aspects of regulatory guidelines, and related to reports prepared for data safety and monitoring committees; design and analysis of cross-over trials (period effects, interactions); equivalence and non-inferiority trials; surrogate endpoints.
| Credit Points: | 4 |
| When Offered: | TBD - To be determined |
| Staff Contact(s): | Associate Professor Gillian Heller |
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| Assessed As: | Graded |
| Offered By: | Department of Statistics Faculty of Science |
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