Controlling false positive rates in prognostic factor analyses with small samples

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 2095-2101

  Liu, Qing ^a,b   Li, Yulan ^a   Boyett, James M ^a  

^a ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHROMOSOME ABERRATIONS; CHROMOSOMES, HUMAN, PAIR 11; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DNA-BINDING PROTEINS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; GENE REARRANGEMENT; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, LYMPHOCYTIC, ACUTE; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYELOID-LYMPHOID LEUKEMIA PROTEIN; PROGNOSIS; PROTO-ONCOGENES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 0030751389     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970930)16:18<2095::AID-SIM639>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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