Confidence intervals for an exposure adjusted incidence rate difference with applications to clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1275-1286

  Liu, Guanghan Frank ^a   Wang, Junyuan ^a   Liu, Kenneth ^a   Snavely, Duane B ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse experiences; Clinical trials; Confidence interval; Exposure adjusted incidence rate; Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

CAPTOPRIL; LOSARTAN;

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CELLULITIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; DRUG TOLERABILITY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG EDEMA; METHODOLOGY; PNEUMONIA; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROSTATE CANCER; SEPTICEMIA; SIMULATION; UNSTABLE ANGINA PECTORIS;

AGED; CAPTOPRIL; CLINICAL TRIALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART FAILURE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOSARTAN; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS;

EID: 33646151608     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2335     Document Type: Article

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