Early stopping to accept H(o) based on conditional power: Approximations and comparisons

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 794-806

  Betensky, Rebecca A ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary crossing; Sequential design; Stochastic curtailment

Indexed keywords

STATISTICAL TESTS;

ANDERSONS; BOUNDARY CROSSING; CONDITIONAL POWER; CURRENT DATA; EARLY STOPPING; NULL HYPOTHESIS; SEQUENTIAL DESIGN; STOCHASTIC CURTAILMENT; STOCHASTICS; TIME POINTS;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PARAMETER; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; VISUAL DISPLAY UNIT;

EID: 0030821530     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533543     Document Type: Article

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