simFastBOIN: Fast Simulation of Bayesian Optimal Interval Designs for Phase I Trials

Design and evaluate phase I dose-finding trials that use the Bayesian optimal interval (BOIN) design of Liu and Yuan (2015) <doi:10.1111/rssc.12089>. Functions are provided to tabulate the decision boundaries, to simulate trials, to estimate the dose-toxicity curve under a monotonicity constraint and to select the maximum tolerated dose. The simulation engine is written in C++ and draws one random variate per patient in enrollment order, which reproduces the reference implementation in the 'BOIN' package trial by trial for a given seed. The traditional 3+3 design is provided as a comparator, with operating characteristics obtained in closed form rather than by simulation.

Version: 2.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: Rcpp (≥ 1.0.0), stats, utils
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Suggests: BOIN, ggplot2 (≥ 3.4.0), Iso, knitr, rmarkdown, spelling, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-09-18
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.simFastBOIN
Author: Gosuke Homma ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Gosuke Homma <my.name.is.gosuke at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/gosukehommaEX/simFastBOIN/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/gosukehommaEX/simFastBOIN
NeedsCompilation: yes
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: simFastBOIN results

Documentation:

Reference manual: simFastBOIN.html , simFastBOIN.pdf
Vignettes: Getting started with simFastBOIN (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: simFastBOIN_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: simFastBOIN_1.3.2.zip, r-release: simFastBOIN_1.3.2.zip, r-oldrel: simFastBOIN_2.0.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): simFastBOIN_1.3.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): simFastBOIN_2.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): simFastBOIN_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): simFastBOIN_2.0.0.tgz
Old sources: simFastBOIN archive

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