Interim analyses using repeated confidence bands

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 517-529

  Joan Hu, X ^a   Lagakos, Stephen W ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Group sequential analysis; Mean function; Nonparametric inference

Indexed keywords

EID: 0007609025     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.3.517     Document Type: Article

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