Exact equivalence test for risk ratio and its sample size determination under inverse sampling

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 15, 1997, Pages 1777-1786

  Lui, Kung Jong ^a  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RISK; SAMPLE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ODDS RATIO; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING STUDIES;

EID: 0030838611     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970815)16:15<1777::AID-SIM608>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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