Estimation in flexible two stage designs

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 3366-3381

  Brannath, Werner ^a   König, Franz ^a   Bauer, Peter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adaptive design; Flexible confidence interval; Invariance principle; Maximum likelihood estimate; Mean unbiased estimate; Median unbiased estimate

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; NULL HYPOTHESIS; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VARIANCE;

CLINICAL TRIALS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 33748547385     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2258     Document Type: Review

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