The proposed group-sequential trial design is based on Bayesian methods for ordinal endpoints,
including three methods, the proportional-odds-model (PO)-based, non-proportional-odds-model (NPO)-based,
and PO/NPO switch-model-based designs, which makes our proposed methods generic to be able to deal with
various scenarios.
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