Construction of a continuous stopping boundary from an alpha spending function

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 1061-1071

  Betensky, Rebecca A ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary crossing; Brownian motion; Discrete sequential boundary

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

ANALYSIS TIME; BOUNDARY CROSSING; BOUNDARY VALUES; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTINOUS TIME; CROSSING TIME; DISCRETE ANALYSIS; DISCRETE SEQUENTIAL BOUNDARY; DISCRETE TIME; TYPE-I ERROR;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; HEART INFARCTION; MEDICAL RECORD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 0031688791     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533857     Document Type: Article

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