Covariate-adjusted adaptive randomization in a sarcoma trial with multi-stage treatments

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 24, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1947-1964

  Thall, Peter F ^a   Wathen, J Kyle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive design; Adaptive randomization; Bayesian design; Clinical trial; Covariate adjustment; Sarcoma

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADVANCED CANCER; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METASTASIS POTENTIAL; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; SOFT TISSUE SARCOMA; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BAYES THEOREM; HUMANS; PROBABILITY; SARCOMA; SOFT TISSUE NEOPLASMS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 21244434260     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2077     Document Type: Article

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