Some distributions and their implications for an internal pilot study with a univariate linear model

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 2677-2691

  Coffey, Christopher S ^a   Muller, Keith E ^b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b IL   (United States)

Author keywords

Interim power analysis; Sample size re estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041692485     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610920008832631     Document Type: Article

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