Robust Bayesian sample size determination in clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 2290-2306

  Brutti, Pierpaolo ^a   De Santis, Fulvio ^a   Gubbiotti, Stefania ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

contaminated priors; Analysis and design priors; Bayesian power; Bayesian robustness; Conditional and predictive power; Evidence; Phase II and Phase III clinical trials; Sample size determination

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITERION VARIABLE; HAZARD RATIO; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; METHODOLOGY; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 44949250001     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3175     Document Type: Article

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