Conditional power with Fisher's least significant difference procedure

Biometrika

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 197-208

  Proschan, Michael A ^a  

^a NATIONAL HEART LUNG AND BLOOD INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Monitoring; Multi armed trial; Stochastic curtailment

Indexed keywords

EID: 30444444642     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/84.1.197     Document Type: Article

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