Sample size determination for logistic regression revisited

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2007, Pages 3385-3397

  Demidenko, Eugene ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control study; Clinical trial; Fisher information; Optimal design; Power function; Wald test; Z score

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL STUDY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POWER ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VARIANCE;

CLINICAL TRIALS; LOGISTIC MODELS; SAMPLE SIZE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34547487948     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2771     Document Type: Article

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