A comparison of adaptive allocation rules for group-sequential binary response clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1937-1954

  Morgan, Caroline C ^a   Coad, D Stephen ^b  

^a Cardinal Systems   (France)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adaptive sampling rule; Expected number of treatment failures; Interim analyses; Sample size re estimation; Sequential maximum likelihood estimation; Urn model

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RISK REDUCTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 34047192414     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2693     Document Type: Article

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