Interval estimation of binomial proportion in clinical trials with a two-stage design

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 15-35

  Tsai, Wei Yann ^a   Chi, Yunchan ^b,c   Chen, Chia Min ^b  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NONE   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Coverage probability; Simon's design; Truncated binomial distribution; Two stage design

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; ETOPOSIDE; PREDNISONE; PROCARBAZINE; RITUXIMAB; THALIDOMIDE;

ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DRUG RESEARCH; DRUG RESPONSE; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MANTLE CELL LYMPHOMA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROBABILITY; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE II AS TOPIC; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 38849135867     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2930     Document Type: Article

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