Repeated significance testing in longitudinal clinical trials

Biometrika

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 779-789

  Lee, Sandra J ^a   Kim, Kyungmann ^b   Tsiatis, Anastasios A ^c  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Error spending function; Generalised estimating equation; Group sequential; Independent increments; Repeated measures; Score test; Wald test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001426014     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/83.4.779     Document Type: Article

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