Early stopping by using stochastic curtailment in a three-arm sequential trial

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 139-152

  Leung, Denis Heng Yan ^a,c   Wang, You Gan ^b   Amar, David ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c SINGAPORE MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Bonferroni adjustment; Conditional power; Interim analysis; Predictive power; Stochastic curtailment; Stopping time

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141684916     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00394     Document Type: Article

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