Rule-based ranking schemes for antiretroviral trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1175-1191

  Bjorling, Lisa E ^a   Hodges, James S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG EFFICACY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBSERVER VARIATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG EVALUATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030918391     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970530)16:10<1175::AID-SIM522>3.0.CO;2-G     Document Type: Article

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