Sequential monitoring of clinical trials with multiple survival endpoints

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 21-22, 1996, Pages 2341-2357

  Williams, Paige L ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE COURSE; HUMAN; PATIENT MONITORING; PNEUMOCYSTIS PNEUMONIA; SURVIVAL;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; CLINICAL TRIALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONIA, PNEUMOCYSTIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0029856870     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19961115)15:21<2341::AID-SIM453>3.0.CO;2-N     Document Type: Conference Paper

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