Recently two papers have been accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Statistical Association. These are “Equivalence of regression curves” from Holger Dette, Kathrin Möllenhoff, Stanislav Volgushev & Frank Bretz and “Group SLOPE-adaptive selection of groups of predictors” from Damian Brzyski, Weijie Su & Malgorzata Bodgan. Furthermore “Assessing the similarity of dose response and target doses in two non-overlapping subgroups” from Frank Bretz, Kathrin Möllenhoff, Holger Dette, Wei Liu & Matthias Trampisch has been accepted for publication in Statistics in Medicine.

The IDeAl team submitted the summarizing report entitled “Lessons learned from IDeAl — 33 recommendations from the IDeAl-Net about design and analysis of small population clinical trials” to Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. The report summarizes IDeAl findings resulting in 33 recommendations for practice and relating the work to IRDiRC topics as well as necessary skill in statistical methodologies in small population clinical trial research.