Non-parametric group sequential designs in randomized clinical trials

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 367-376

  Bandyopadhyay, Uttam ^a   Biswas, Atanu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Equivalence; Group sequential methods; Inverse binomial sampling; Repeated significance tests; Stopping rule; Type I error spending function

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041473606     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00290     Document Type: Article

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