Cumulative Event Curve Comparing Two Treatments
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80
Treatment One
Treatment Two
Time
- A subject's baseline findings,
- A subject's interim clinical findings,
- Findings by treatment interactions, or
- Simple changes in the event rate due to the passage of time
Treatment
Placebo
Many clinical trial designs call for analyzing the time to first event but a subject can have multiple events over the course of the study. By using counting processes, it is possible to model the event process and test whether the frequency of all events is the same among the treatments. This can increase the power of your analysis substantially. This model can be extended to allow the event rate to change due to:
Counting Process Analysis