Testing secondary hypotheses following sequential clinical trials

Biometrics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 640-644

  Liu, Aiyi ^a   Tan, Ming ^b   Boyett, James M ^b   Xiong, Xiaoping ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ST JUDE CHILDREN S RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Brownian motion approximation; Sequential monitoring; Whitehead's model

Indexed keywords

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

BROWNIAN MOTION APPROXIMATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONVENTIONAL TESTING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; POWER; SEQUENTIAL CLINICAL TRIALS; SEQUENTIAL MONITORING; TESTING PROCEDURE; TYPE-I ERROR; WHITEHEAD MODEL;

BROWNIAN MOVEMENT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; HYPOTHESIS; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0033946292     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2000.00640.x     Document Type: Article

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