Using the bootstrap for estimation in group sequential designs: An application to a clinical trial for nasopharyngeal cancer

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 2635-2644

  Leblanc, Michael ^a   Crowley, John ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISPLATIN; FLUOROURACIL;

ARTICLE; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NASOPHARYNX CANCER; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CISPLATIN; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; NASOPHARYNGEAL NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033570278     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991015)18:19<2635::AID-SIM200>3.0.CO;2-7     Document Type: Article

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