Prospective application of Bayesian monitoring and analysis in an 'open' randomized clinical trial

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2001, Pages 3777-3787

  Vail, Andy ^a   Hornbuckle, J ^b   Spiegelhalter, D J ^c   Thornton, J G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSTETRICS; ORGANIZATION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0035977407     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1171     Document Type: Article

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