Planning clinical trials to evaluate early detection programmes

Biometrika

Volumn 84, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 817-829

  Ping, H U ^a   Zelen, Marvin ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Clinical trial; Design of experiments; Early detection; Screening

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001399772     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/84.4.817     Document Type: Article

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