Estimation following group-sequential response-adaptive clinical trials

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 523-543

  Morgan, Caroline C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b Cardinal Systems   (France)

Author keywords

Adaptive sampling; Bias; Brownian motion; Corrected confidence interval; Interim analyses; Overshoot correction; Pivotal quantity; Power family of tests

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CLINICAL TRIALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 0345968970     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0197-2456(03)00062-X     Document Type: Article

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