Analysis of clustered matched-pair data for a non-inferiority study design

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 279-290

  Durkalski, Valerie L ^a   Palesch, Yuko Y ^a   Lipsitz, Stuart R ^a   Rust, Philip F ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clustered matched pair data; Diagnostic tests; Non inferiority

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; HYPOTHESIS; MEASUREMENT; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIMARY HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; HYPERPARATHYROIDISM; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED, SINGLE-PHOTON;

EID: 0037472910     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1385     Document Type: Article

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