Modelling, prediction and adaptive adjustment of recruitment in multicentre trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 27, 2007, Pages 4958-4975

  Anisimov, Vladimir V ^a   Fedorov, Valerii V ^b  

^a GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United Kingdom)

^b GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive adjustment; Estimation; Multicentre trial; Poisson gamma model; Prediction; Random recruitment

Indexed keywords

CALCULATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH SUBJECT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 35949002840     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2956     Document Type: Conference Paper

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