Trial design based on surrogate end points - Application to comparison of different breast screening frequencies

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 159, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 49-60

  Day, N E ^a   Duffy, S W ^a,b  

^a MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Breast Cancer Screening; Clinical trials; Surrogate variables

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040753763     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2983468     Document Type: Article

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