Pooling batches in drug stability study by using constant-width simultaneous confidence bands

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 14, 2007, Pages 2759-2771

  Liu, Wei ^a   Jamshidian, M ^b   Zhang, Y ^c   Bretz, F ^d   Han, X L ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^e SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Drug stability studies; Equivalence; Linear regression; Multiple comparisons; Multivariate t; Simultaneous inference; Statistical simulation

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ARTICLE; BATCH PROCESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG STABILITY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHELF LIFE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

DRUG STABILITY; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34249866549     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2756     Document Type: Article

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