Rank-based tests for non-inferiority and equivalence hypotheses in multi-centre clinical trials using mixed models

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 291-311

  Rashid, M Mushfiqur ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Dispersion function; Gradient vector; R estimators; Simulation

Indexed keywords

NEW DRUG; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PARAMETRIC TEST; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORY;

CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIALS; DRUG EVALUATION; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES; RESEARCH DESIGN; STATISTICS;

EID: 0037472884     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1424     Document Type: Article

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