Responder identification in clinical trials with censored data

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 50, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1338-1355

  Kehl, Victoria ^a   Ulm, Kurt ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bump hunting; Predictive factors; Responder identification; Treatment covariate interaction

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

BUMP HUNTING; CLINICAL TRIALS; PREDICTIVE FACTORS; RESPONDER IDENTIFICATION; TREATMENT-COVARIANT INTERACTION;

DATA REDUCTION;

EID: 27644473876     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2004.11.015     Document Type: Article

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