Establishing equivalence of two treatments and sample size requirements in matched-pairs design

Biometrics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1422-1430

  Nam, Jun Mo ^a  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Efficiency of matching; Equivalence tests; Individually matched pairs; Sample size; Type I error probability

Indexed keywords

ERROR STATISTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

EFFICIENCY OF MATCHING; EQUIVALENCE TESTS; ERROR PROBABILITIES; INDIVIDUALLY MATCHED PAIR; MATCHED-PAIR DESIGN; MATCHINGS; NULL HYPOTHESIS; SAMPLE SIZES; TYPE I ERROR PROBABILITY; TYPE-I ERROR;

EFFICIENCY;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; HYPOTHESIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

PHASEOLUS (ANGIOSPERM);

EID: 0031467706     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533508     Document Type: Article

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