Designing clinical trials with uncertain estimates of variability

Pharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 261-268

  Julious, Steve A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive designs; Power; Sample size; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL STUDY; POPULATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VARIANCE;

EID: 10944270059     PISSN: 15391604     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pst.139     Document Type: Article

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