Assessment of the Gould-Shih procedure for sample size re-estimation

Pharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-65

  Waksman, Joel A ^a  

^a Wyeth Consumer Healthcare ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; EM algorithm; Finite mixture distributions; Maximum likelihood estimation; Sample size re estimation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; GOULD AND SHIH PROCEDURE; HEALTH STATISTICS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ALGORITHMS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL TRIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33947418116     PISSN: 15391604     EISSN: 15391612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pst.244     Document Type: Article

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