Blinded sample size re-estimation with unequal variances and center effects in clinical trials

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 395-408

  Shih, Weichung J ^a   Long, Jianmin ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Interim analysis; Mixture of normal distributions; Multi center clinical trials; Unequal variances

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003357663     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610929808832102     Document Type: Article

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