A computationally simple bivariate survival estimator for efficacy and safety

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 365-387

  Scholtens, Denise ^a,b   Betensky, Rebecca A ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bivariate survival; Efficacy and safety; Group sequential analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL;

ARTICLE; BIOMETRY; COLORECTAL TUMOR; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II AS TOPIC; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FLUOROURACIL; HUMANS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33749361964     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-006-9011-3     Document Type: Article

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