Boin: An r package for designing single-agent and drug-combination dose-finding trials using bayesian optimal interval designs

Abstract

This article describes the R package BOIN, which implements a recently developed methodology for designing single-agent and drug-combination dose-finding clinical trials using Bayesian optimal interval designs (Liu and Yuan 2015; Yuan, Hess, Hilsenbeck, and Gilbert 2016). The BOIN designs are novel “model-assisted” phase I trial designs that can be implemented simply and transparently, similar to the 3 + 3 design, but yield excellent performance comparable to those of more complicated, model-based designs. The BOIN package provides tools for designing, conducting, and analyzing single-agent and drug-combination dose-finding trials.