Fit the EffTox model presented in Thall et al. (2014) using Stan for full Bayesian inference.

stan_efftox_demo(outcome_str, ...)

Arguments

outcome_str

A string representing the outcomes observed hitherto. See efftox_parse_outcomes for a description of syntax and examples. Alternatively, you may provide doses_given, eff and tox parameters. See Details.

...

Extra parameters are passed to rstan::sampling. Commonly used options are iter, chains, warmup, cores, control. sampling.

Value

An object of class efftox_fit

References

Thall, P., & Cook, J. (2004). Dose-Finding Based on Efficacy-Toxicity Trade-Offs. Biometrics, 60(3), 684-693.

Thall, P., Herrick, R., Nguyen, H., Venier, J., & Norris, J. (2014). Effective sample size for computing prior hyperparameters in Bayesian phase I-II dose-finding. Clinical Trials, 11(6), 657-666. https://doi.org/10.1177/1740774514547397

Brock, K., Billingham, L., Copland, M., Siddique, S., Sirovica, M., & Yap, C. (2017). Implementing the EffTox dose-finding design in the Matchpoint trial. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 17(1), 112. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-017-0381-x

See also

Examples

if (FALSE) { # This model is presented in Thall et al. (2014) mod2 <- stan_efftox_demo('1N 2E 3B', seed = 123) # The seed is passed to the Stan sampler. The usual Stan sampler params like # cores, iter, chains etc are passed on too via the ellipsis operator. }