Calculating the power or sample size for the logistic and proportional hazards models

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation

Volumn 75, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 771-785

  Schoenfeld, David A ^a,b   Borenstein, Michael ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Biostatistical Programming Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Generalized linear models; Logistic model; Multivariate normal integrals; Power; Proportional hazards model; Sample size; Wald test

Indexed keywords

EID: 29244444567     PISSN: 00949655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00949650410001729445     Document Type: Article

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