Design of clinical trials for recurrent events with periodic monitoring

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 22, 1999, Pages 3005-3020

  Matsui, Shigeyuki ^a,b   Miyagishi, Hideaki ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b OITA UNIVERSITY OF NURSING AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MONITORING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CALCIUM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SPINAL INJURIES; SPINE; VITAMIN K; VITAMIN K 2;

EID: 0033619694     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991130)18:22<3005::AID-SIM207>3.0.CO;2-8     Document Type: Article

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