title: How practical are adaptive designs likely to be for confirmatory trials?
abstract: This is a discussion of the following papers appearing in this special issue on adaptive designs: 'Confirmatory Seamless Phase II/III Clinical trials with Hypotheses Selection at Interim: General Concepts' by Frank Bretz, Heinz Schmidli, Franz König, Amy Racine and Willi Maurer; and 'Confirmatory Seamless Phase II/III Clinical Trials with Hypotheses Selection at Interim: Applications and Practical Considerations' by Heinz Schmidli, Frank Bretz, Amy Racine and Willi Maurer.
authors.affiliation: Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA 19486, USA. larry_gould@merck.com
authors.forename: A Lawrence
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Gould
mesh_terms: D001699:Biometry; D017322:Clinical Trials, Phase II as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017326:Clinical Trials, Phase III as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012107:Research Design / Q000706:statistics & numerical data