Improving the analysis of composite endpoints in rare disease trials

Abstract Background Composite endpoints are recommended in rare diseases to increase power and/or to sufficiently capture complexity. Often, they are in the form of responder indices which contain a mixture of continuous and binary components. Analyses of these outcomes typically treat them as binar...

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Main Authors: Martina McMenamin, Anna Berglind, James M. S. Wason
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13023-018-0819-1