equivalence trial
- Guideline or reference source
- ICHE9 Statistical principles for clinical trials
- Definition
- A trial with the primary objective of showing that the response to two or more treatments differs by an amount which is clinically unimportant. This is usually demonstrated by showing that the true treatment difference is likely to lie between a lower and an upper equivalence margin of clinically acceptable differences.
- Broader Term
- clinical trial objective
- Related Term
- non-inferiority trial
- superiority trial
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