Flexible Implementations of Group Sequential Stopping Rules Using Constrained Boundaries

Biometrics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 770-777

  Burington, Bart E ^a   Emerson, Scott S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Error spending function; Group sequential; Interim analyses; Monitoring; Stopping rule

Indexed keywords

PATIENT TREATMENT; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CLINICAL TRIAL; ERROR SPENDING FUNCTION; FREQUENTIST; GROUP SEQUENTIAL; HYPOTHESIS TESTS; INTERIM ANALYSIS; OPERATING CHARACTERISTICS; SEQUENTIAL STOPPING RULES; STOPPING RULE; TRIAL DESIGNS;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

BIOMETRY;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; SAFETY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS;

EID: 0347363887     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2003.00090.x     Document Type: Article

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