Sample size determination for comparing several survival curves with unequal allocations

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1793-1815

  Halabi, Susan ^a   Singh, Bahadur ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Log rank test; Proportional hazards; Random censoring

Indexed keywords

CALCITRIOL; CARBOPLATIN; DOCETAXEL; ESTRAMUSTINE;

ARTICLE; CANCER HORMONE THERAPY; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEATH; EMPIRICISM; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; PLOTS AND CURVES; PROBABILITY; PROSTATE CANCER; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SURVIVAL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEOPLASMS, HORMONE-DEPENDENT; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 2942648041     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.1771     Document Type: Article

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