Group sequential monitoring of distribution - free analyses of repeated measures

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 653-668

  Lachin, John M ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0030969271     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19970330)16:6<653::AID-SIM439>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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