MultiArmStudy Class

An S7 class for representing and analyzing multi-arm clinical studies (3+ treatment arms). Inherits from Study.

Usage

MultiArmStudy(
  study_id = character(0),
  study_title = "",
  design = "rct",
  population = "ITT",
  endpoints = list(),
  results = list(),
  risk_of_bias = NULL,
  metadata = list(),
  data = data.frame(),
  treatment_var = "TRT01P",
  arms = character(0),
  reference_arm = ""
)

Arguments

study_id

Character string for study identifier

study_title

Character string for study title

design

Character string for study design (default: "rct")

population

Character string for population

endpoints

List of Endpoint objects

results

List of analysis results

risk_of_bias

Risk of bias assessment result

metadata

List of additional metadata

data

A data frame containing the study data

treatment_var

Character string for treatment variable name

arms

Character vector of treatment arm names

reference_arm

Character string for the reference/control arm

Value

A MultiArmStudy object

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
study <- MultiArmStudy(
  data = my_data,
  study_id = "STUDY001",
  study_title = "Phase III Multi-Arm RCT",
  treatment_var = "TRT01P",
  arms = c("Drug A", "Drug B", "Drug C", "Placebo"),
  reference_arm = "Placebo"
)
} # }