The First UMBC–Stanford Workshop
on Clinical Trials and Regulatory Science

Event Summary: A one-day workshop organized by the Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Consulting at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), and the Center for Innovative Study Design (CISD) at Stanford University in the field of Clinical Trials and Regulatory Science.

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Organizing Committee:
Yi Huang (UMBC)
Nagaraj Neerchal (UMBC)
Bimal Sinha (UMBC)
Tze Lai (Stanford)
Phillip Lavori (Stanford)
Ying Lu (Stanford)
Jie Chen (Novartis)
Joseph Heyse (Merck)

For more information: Please contact Dr. Yi Huang, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250.
E-Mail: yihuang@umbc.edu.

For any Technical difficulties Please contact Zana Coulibaly at czana1@umbc.edu.


Participant Information

Mei-Ling Ting Lee from University of Maryland.

Paper: Threshold Regression Models: with application in a multiple myeloma clinical trial

Cox regression methods are well-known. It has, however, a strong proportional hazards assumption. In many medical contexts, a disease progresses until a failure event (such as death) is triggered when the health level first reaches a failure threshold. I’ll present the Threshold Regression (TR) model for patient’s latent health process that requires few assumptions and, hence, is quite general in its potential application. We use TR to analyze data from a randomized clinical trial of treatment for multiple myeloma. A comparison is made with a Cox proportional hazards regression analysis of the same data.