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Table 1 Overview of study designs considered in simulations

From: Preventing false discovery of heterogeneous treatment effect subgroups in randomized trials

Effect type

Study setting

N = 200 phase II oncology trial

N = 6000 phase III CVD trial

ATE > 0, no HTE subgroups

Simulation 1A

Simulation 2A

ATE> 0, HTE subgroups exist

Simulation 1B

Simulation 2B

ATE = 0, HTE subgroups exist

 

Simulation 2C

  1. ATE average treatment effect, CVD cardiovascular disease, HTE heterogeneous treatment effect