Publisher's Synopsis
The primary focus of this proposed book is the win ratio method to analyse a composite of prioritized multiple outcomes. This method is new for a book. The method was first introduced by Dr. Stuart Pocock and his colleagues in 2012. Since then, it has been comprehensively studied by a number of researchers. Some readers may have been very familiar with the conventional clinical trial designs and analyses of multiple outcomes (i.e., priority order or clinical importance order among the multiple outcomes are ignored), we propose to also introduce these conventional methods such as multivariate analyses, multiple testing and competing risk analyses of multiple endpoints, so that they can see the advantages of the win ratio method over these conventional methods.
Key Features:
- Multiple outcomes - the topic of the proposed book, are common to clinical studies (i.e., multiple outcomes as efficacy endpoints are commonly used in clinical trials). Therefore, the topic of this proposed book is very popular to people working on clinical trials or doing research of clinical trial design and analysis.
- This proposed book will be the first book that focuses on the win ratio - a new statistical method dealing with prioritized multiple outcomes.
- This proposed book will also cover other related topics such as other methods analysing prioritized multiple outcomes and conventional methods of multiple outcomes.
- This proposed book will target on diverse readers (e.g. researchers, clinical trial practioners, and graduate students).
- This proposed book will have comprehensive case studies (for readers to easily understand the contents and to apply the methods to their work).
- This proposed book will have sufficient figures to illustrate the methods, or facilitate discussions on the methods.
- This proposed book will introduce softwares for multiple outcomes and include SAS and R codes for the win ratio related programming (to facilitate readers to apply the methods to their work).
