Plan to be flexible: A commentary on adaptive designs

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 656-659

  Shih, Weichung Joe ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

^b RUTGERS CANCER INSTITUTE OF NEW JERSEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive planning; Adaptive seamless design; Adaptive tests; Closure principle; Combination tests; Early stopping; Group sequential clinical trials; Hypotheses selection; Multiple testing; Noninferiority; Repeated confidence intervals; Self designing

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PLANNING; ADAPTIVE SEAMLESS DESIGN; ADAPTIVE TESTS; CLOSURE PRINCIPLE; COMBINATION TEST; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EARLY STOPPING; GROUP SEQUENTIAL CLINICAL TRIAL; HYPOTHESIS SELECTION; MULTIPLE TESTING; NON-INFERIORITY; REPEATED CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; SEAMLESS DESIGN; SELF-DESIGNING; SEQUENTIAL CLINICAL TRIALS;

EID: 33748560823     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: 15214036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200610241     Document Type: Review

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