Exact power and sample size for vaccine efficacy studies

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1305-1322

  Chan, Ivan S F ^a   Bohidar, Norman R ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Binomial data; Conditional test; Poisson distribution; Unconditional test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000081779     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929808832160     Document Type: Article

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