Power calculations for preclinical studies using a K-sample rank test and the Lehmann alternative hypothesis

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 2543-2553

  Heller, Glenn ^a  

^a MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal study design; Exact test; Permutation distribution; Sample size calculation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CALCULATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTAL ANIMAL; HYPOTHESIS; KAPPA STATISTICS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POWER ANALYSIS; RANK SUM TEST; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; MICE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEOPLASMS, EXPERIMENTAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 33746163409     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2268     Document Type: Article

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