Incorporating sex differences in trial design for Alzheimer's disease: towards precision medicine.
Keywords: Alzheimer| Clinical trial | statistical modeling | causal inference | group based trajectory modeling | Bayesian power
Project coordinator: Women’s Brain Project
CeDA collaborator: Sébastien Boyer
Project objectives
- Characterizing the effects of incorporating sex differences on clinical trial design and outcome, as well as tracking the main vectors of those differences.
Approaches
- Statistical approach on meta data from homemade systematic review.
- Analyzing publicly available data sets.
- Analyzing clinical data from collaborations with the pharmaceutical industries.
- Analyzing clinical data from collaborations with the pharmaceutical industries.
Analytical methods
- Generalized Linear Model to analyze meta data from homemade systematic review.
- Discrete and continuous causal inference on systematic review data to decorrelate sex specific clinical trial enrollment signal from confounding factors.
- Group based trajectory modeling to cluster patients with similar disease evolution.
- Clinical trial design simulation using Bayesian power on complex phenotype population.