Bayesian Inference in Clinical Trials: A Practical Guide
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Abstract
We present a practitioner-oriented introduction to Bayesian methods for adaptive clinical trial design. Using three motivating case studies from oncology, we demonstrate how posterior predictive distributions enable principled early stopping and sample-size re-estimation without inflating type-I error.