Issues of efficiency in combining proportions of deaths from several clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1987, Pages 565-576

  Buyse, Marc ^a,b   Ryan, Louise M ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b EORTC DATA CENTER   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Asymptotic relative efficiency; Clinical trial; Data combination; Mantel Haenszel test; Stratified logrank test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOMIZATION; RECTUM TUMOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVALUATION STUDIES; HUMAN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RECTAL NEOPLASMS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023378267     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4780060505     Document Type: Article

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