Sample size determination for multiple comparison studies treating confidence interval width as random

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1475-1488

  Pan, Zhiying ^a   Kupper, Lawrence L ^b  

^a Division of Biostatistics   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MIGRAINE DISORDERS; PATIENTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SOFTWARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 0033618085     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19990630)18:12<1475::AID-SIM144>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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