Application of stochastic processes to participant recruitment in clinical trials

Controlled Clinical Trials

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 429-436

  Carter, Rickey Edward ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Accrual time; Clinical trial; Poisson process

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DENSITY FUNCTIONAL THEORY; HUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

CLINICAL TRIALS; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 4644291970     PISSN: 01972456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2004.07.002     Document Type: Article

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