Approximate confidence intervals after a sequential clinical trial comparing two exponential survival curves with censoring

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 79-96

  Coad, D S ^a   Woodroofe, M B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Data dependent treatment allocation; Ratio of expected survival times; Sequential test; Stein's identity; Very weak expansions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031591889     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(96)00204-2     Document Type: Article

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