Active-control trials with binary data: A comparison of methods for testing superiority or non-inferiority using the odds ratio

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 353-370

  Siqueira, Arminda Lucia ^a   Whitehead, Anne ^b   Todd, Susan ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binary data; Likelihood ratio test; Non inferiority; Odds ratio; Score test; Wald test

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BETA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; CALCULATION; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHARYNGITIS; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CONTROL GROUPS; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; ODDS RATIO; PLACEBOS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38949200584     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.2975     Document Type: Article

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