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Table 2 Dose and incremental ratios in 81 modified-Fibonacci-sequence designed studies

From: What does a modified-Fibonacci dose-escalation actually correspond to?

 

Planned dose in

Actual doses

Dose-level (nof studies reaching the dose-level)

Genuine Fibonacci sequence

Modified Fibonacci sequence

Median of actual dose

Min. of actual dose

Max. of actual dose

Mean (± SD) of actual dose

1(81)

1

1.0

1

-

-

-

2(81)

2

2.0

2.00

0.80

10

1.82 (0.65)

3 (77)

3

3.3

3.00

0.80

3.33

4.08 (1.65)

4 (67)

5

5.1

4.00

0.97

10.00

9.23 (3.12)

5 (58)

8

6.60

5.32

1.20

33.33

17.61 (4.71)

6 (43)

13

8.80

7.80

0.90

56.25

34.49 (6.89)

7 (32)

21

11.8

11.93

1.86

80.00

67.96 (9.77)

8 (19)

34

15.6

15.78

6.67

128.00

35.64 (5.43)

9 (13)

55

20.8

19.50

13.33

256.00

78.11 (8.69)

10 (7)

89

27.8

23.00

18.00

512.00

133.38 (12.69)

11 (5)

144

36.8

28.89

23.50

1024.00

227.16 (17.85)

12 (3)

233

49.0

38.44

35.83

2048.00

707.43 (29.89)

13 (0)

377

65.2

-

-

-

-

  1. n: number of studied reaching the specified dose-level; SD: standard deviation.