Adaptive two-stage test procedures to find the best treatment in clinical trials

Biometrika

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 197-212

  Bischoff, Wolfgang ^a   Miller, Frank ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF EICHSTÄTT INGOLSTADT   (Germany)

^b ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Adaptive design; Bayes procedure; Clinical trial; Expected number of patients with respect to a prior; Group sequential test; Two stage test; Unknown variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 15844387277     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/92.1.197     Document Type: Article

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