Assessing Effects on Long-term Survival after Early Termination of Randomized Trials

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 55-66

  Shen, Yu ^a   Fleming, Thomas R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Cox regression; Early termination of trials; Historical controls; Mean survival estimate; Weighted mean survival test

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; KIDNEY TUMOR; NEPHROBLASTOMA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SURVIVAL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; WILMS TUMOR;

EID: 0032612203     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009631100455     Document Type: Article

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