Properties of spending function boundaries

Biometrika

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 466-473

  Proschan, Michael A ^a  

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

Author keywords

Clinical trial monitoring; Repeated significance testing

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746384499     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/86.2.466     Document Type: Article

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