We introduce the subpopulation treatment effect pattern plot (STEPP) method, designed to facilitate the interpretation of estimates of treatment effect derived from different but potentially overlapping subsets of clinical trial data. In particular, we consider sequences of subpopulations defined with respect to a covariate, and obtain confidence bands for the collection of treatment effects (here obtained from the Cox proportional hazards model) associated with the sequences. The method is aimed at determining whether the magnitude of the treatment effect changes as a function of the values of the covariate. We apply STEPP to a breast cancer clinical trial data set to evaluate the treatment effect as a function of the oestrogen receptor content of the primary tumour. Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.

A graphical method to assess treatment-covariate interactions using the Cox model on subsets of the data

BONETTI, MARCO;
2000

Abstract

We introduce the subpopulation treatment effect pattern plot (STEPP) method, designed to facilitate the interpretation of estimates of treatment effect derived from different but potentially overlapping subsets of clinical trial data. In particular, we consider sequences of subpopulations defined with respect to a covariate, and obtain confidence bands for the collection of treatment effects (here obtained from the Cox proportional hazards model) associated with the sequences. The method is aimed at determining whether the magnitude of the treatment effect changes as a function of the values of the covariate. We apply STEPP to a breast cancer clinical trial data set to evaluate the treatment effect as a function of the oestrogen receptor content of the primary tumour. Copyright (C) 2000 John Wiley and Sons, Ltd.
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