Gatekeeping procedures with clinical trial applications

Pharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 171-180

  Dmitrienko, Alex ^a   Tamhane, Ajit C ^b  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trial; Multiple comparisons; Multiple endpoints

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; INSULIN; NOOTROPIC AGENT; PLACEBO;

ADULT RESPIRATORY DISTRESS SYNDROME; ALGORITHM; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CLINICAL GLOBAL IMPRESSION SCALE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION TREE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FORMULATION; DRUG SAFETY; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; INSULIN TREATMENT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG FUNCTION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PARAMETRIC TEST; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CLINICAL TRIALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34648823147     PISSN: 15391604     EISSN: 15391612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pst.291     Document Type: Review

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