Prevalence and implications of significance testing for baseline covariate imbalance in randomised cancer clinical trials: The Table 1 Fallacy
The ‘Table 1 Fallacy’ refers to the unsound use of significance testing to compare the distributions of baseline variables between randomised groups to draw erroneous conclusions about balance or imbalance. We performed a cross-sectional study of the Table 1 Fallacy in phase III oncology trials.
Source: European Journal of Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Alexander D. Sherry, Pavlos Msaouel, Zachary McCaw, Joseph A. Jaoude, Eric J. Hsu, Ramez Kouzy, Roshal Patel, Yumeng Yang, Timothy A. Lin, Cullen Taniguchi, Claus R ödel, Emmanouil Fokas, Chad Tang, C. David Fuller, Bruce Minsky, Tomer Meirson, Ryan Sun, Tags: Original Research Source Type: research