Statistical power for a long-term survival trial with a time-dependent treatment effect

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 561-573

  Lu, Jiandong ^a,b   Pajak, Thomas F ^a  

^a RADIATION THERAPY ONCOLOGY GROUP   (United States)

^b AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group sequential analysis; Log rank test; Prostate cancer; Statistical power; Time dependent treatment effect

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DOSE TIME EFFECT RELATION; FOLLOW UP; PROSTATE CANCER; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL TIME;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034534306     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-2456(00)00108-2     Document Type: Article

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