Strategies for including patients recruited during interim analysis of clinical trials

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1211-1225

  Faldum, Andreas ^a   Hommel, Gerhard ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive design; Average sample size; Conditional error function; Design modification; Group sequential design; Interim patients; Maximum sample size; Overrunning; Power; Repeated interim analysis

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONFERENCE PAPER; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICAL RECORD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 36249021549     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: 15205711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543400701645439     Document Type: Conference Paper

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