Brownian motion and long-term clinical trial recruitment

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 239-246

  Lai, Dejian ^a   Moyé, Lemuel A ^a   Davis, Barry R ^a   Brown, Lisa E ^b   Sacks, Frank M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

60G35; 60J65; 62F25; 62J05; Brownian motion; Clinical trial recruitment; Decision making; Prediction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0043195493     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(00)00203-2     Document Type: Article

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