Internal pilot studies I: Type I error rate of the naive t-test

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 3481-3491

  Wittes, Janet ^a   Schabenberger, Oliver ^b   Zucker, David ^c   Brittain, Erica ^d   Proschan, Michael ^e  

^a University of Iowa   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^d Potomac Biostat Inc   (United States)

^e NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; CALCULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; PILOT STUDY; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PILOT PROJECTS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0033620008     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(19991230)18:24<3481::AID-SIM301>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Conference Paper

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