Comparison of one-sample two-sided sequential t-tests for application in epidemiological studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 15, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 2781-2795

  Van Tweel, Ingeborg Der ^a   Kaaks, Rudolf ^b   Van Noord, Paul A H ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MASS SCREENING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 0030480857     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19961230)15:24<2781::AID-SIM388>3.0.CO;2-O     Document Type: Conference Paper

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