Letter to the editor: The design of simulation studies in medical statistics

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 3818-3821

  Demirtas, Hakan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CALCULATION; LETTER; MATHEMATICAL VARIABLE; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; METHODOLOGY; NOTE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 34548166010     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2876     Document Type: Letter

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