Krotka, Pavla and Hees, Katharina and Jacko, Peter and Magirr, Dominic and Posch, Martin and Bofill Roig, Marta (2023) NCC : An R-package for analysis and simulation of platform trials with non-concurrent controls. SoftwareX, 23: 101437. ISSN 2352-7110
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Platform trials evaluate the efficacy of multiple treatments, allowing for late entry of the experimental arms and enabling efficiency gains by sharing controls. The power of individual treatment-control comparisons in such trials can be improved by utilizing non-concurrent controls (NCC) in the analysis. We present the R-package NCC for the design and analysis of platform trials using non-concurrent controls. NCC allows for simulating platform trials and evaluating the properties of analysis methods that make use of non-concurrent controls in a variety of settings. We describe the main NCC functions and show how to use the package to simulate and analyse platform trials by means of specific examples.