https://github.com/boehringer-ingelheim/bprinstrattte
Causal Effects in Principal Strata Defined by Antidrug Antibodies
https://github.com/boehringer-ingelheim/bprinstrattte
bayesian-methods causal-inference clinical-trial estimand mcmc-methods pharmaceutical-development principal-stratification r-package simulation stan time-to-event
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Causal Effects in Principal Strata Defined by Antidrug Antibodies
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/boehringer-ingelheim/bprinstrattte
- Owner: Boehringer-Ingelheim
- License: gpl-3.0
- Created: 2023-05-05T14:57:39.000Z (about 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-04-16T17:10:59.000Z (over 2 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-22T04:49:58.213Z (9 months ago)
- Topics: bayesian-methods, causal-inference, clinical-trial, estimand, mcmc-methods, pharmaceutical-development, principal-stratification, r-package, simulation, stan, time-to-event
- Language: R
- Homepage: https://boehringer-ingelheim.github.io/BPrinStratTTE/
- Size: 90.4 MB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.Rmd
- Changelog: NEWS.md
- License: LICENSE.md
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README
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# BPrinStratTTE 
[](https://lifecycle.r-lib.org/articles/stages.html#experimental)
[](https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=BPrinStratTTE)
Bayesian models to estimate causal effects of biological treatments on time-to-event endpoints in clinical trials with principal strata defined by the occurrence of antidrug antibodies.
## Scope
- The package contains functions to fit Bayesian principal stratification models and to perform clinical trial simulations to determine operating characteristics for given scenarios.
- Two-arm clinical trials of biological therapies are considered
- with an intercurrent event (determining the principal stratum of interest) that can only occur in the treated arm (such as the development of antidrug antibodies), and
- with a time-to-event endpoint that is assumed to follow an exponential distribution.
- Effect estimators are hazard ratios and restricted mean survival times.
- Potential predictors of the intercurrent event can be taken into account.
- The models are fitted by Monte Carlo Markov Chain (MCMC) sampling, they are coded in [Stan](https://mc-stan.org/) and precompiled.
- More flexible time-to-event distributions (piecewise-exponential and Weibull) will be considered in future versions of the package.
## Principal stratification methodology
- Principal stratification is an approach to estimate causal effects in partitions of subjects determined by post-treatment events. It was introduced in the biostatistical literature by @Frangakis2002.
- The ICH E9 (R1) addendum on estimands and sensitivity analysis in clinical trials proposed principal stratification as one approach to deal with intercurrent events in clinical trials (@ICHE9R1Guideline).
- Principal stratum membership is typically not known with certainty. A Bayesian approach may be particularly suited to deal with this type of uncertainty. Following a proposal by @Imbens1997, principal stratum membership can be treated as a latent mixture variable.
- Motivated by scientific questions arising in clinical trials of biological therapies, in this package the approach by @Imbens1997 is adapted to a specific clinical trial setting with a time-to-event endpoint and the intercurrent event only occurring in the treated group.
- For recent reviews of applications to clinical trials see @Lipkovich2022 and @Bornkamp2021.
References:
## Installation
The current stable version of the package can be installed from CRAN with:
```{r cran-installation, eval=FALSE}
install.packages("BPrinStratTTE")
```
The development version of the package can be installed from GitHub with:
```{r gh-installation, eval=FALSE}
if (!require("remotes")) {install.packages("remotes")}
remotes::install_github("Boehringer-Ingelheim/BPrinStratTTE")
```