Sample size calculations for comparative clinical trials with over-dispersed Poisson process data

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1339-1356

  Matsui, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Over dispersed Poisson process; Recurrent events; Sample size calculation

Indexed keywords

GAMMA INTERFERON; PLACEBO;

ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHRONIC GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROCESS MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; VARIANCE;

CLINICAL TRIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GRANULOMATOUS DISEASE, CHRONIC; HUMANS; IMMUNOTHERAPY; INTERFERON TYPE II; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 17844372516     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2011     Document Type: Article

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