Re-calculating the sample size in internal pilot study designs with control of the type I error rate

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 901-911

  Kieser, Meinhard ^a   Friede, Tim ^b  

^a DR WILLMAR SCHWABE GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEPRESSION; HUMANS; HYPERICUM; PHYTOTHERAPY; PILOT PROJECTS; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 0034656288     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0258(20000415)19:7<901::AID-SIM405>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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