Assessment and monitoring in clinical trials when survival curves have distinct shapes: A Bayesian approach with Weibull modelling

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 663-674

  Lecoutre, Bruno ^a   Mabika, Bienvenu ^a   Derzko, Gérard ^b  

^a Université de Rouen Normandie   (France)

^b SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Interim analyses; Mortality study; Predictive distributions; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; MONITORING; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037088326     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1042     Document Type: Article

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