A comparison of two methods for adaptive interim analyses in clinical trials

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 696-705

  Wassmer, Gernot ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive interim analyses; Clinical trials; Early stopping; Type I error rate

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE INTERIM ANALYZE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION RULES; EARLY ACCEPTANCE; EARLY STOPPING; INTERIM ANALYSIS; STAGE I; TREATMENT EFFECTS; TWO STAGE PROCEDURE; TYPE I ERROR RATE;

BIOMETRICS;

VALERIAN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031799618     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3109775     Document Type: Article

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