A Bayesian approach for sample size determination in method comparison studies

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 2273-2289

  Yin, Kunshan ^a   Choudhary, Pankaj K ^a   Varghese, Diana ^a   Goodman, Steven R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Agreement; Concordance correlation; Fitting and sampling priors; Hierarchical model; Sample size determination; Tolerance interval; Total deviation index

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD SAMPLING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEOMICS; SAMPLE SIZE; SPHYGMOMANOMETER; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

BAYES THEOREM; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; BLOOD PROTEINS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SOFTWARE;

EID: 44949120820     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3124     Document Type: Article

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