On the inefficiency of the adaptive design for monitoring clinical trials

Biometrika

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 367-378

  Tsiatis, Anastasios A ^a   Mehta, Cyrus ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Cytel Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive design; Group sequential test; Likelihood ratio test

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842826262     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/90.2.367     Document Type: Article

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