Efficient and robust method for comparing the immunogenicity of candidate vaccines in randomized clinical trials

Vaccine

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 396-401

  Gilbert, Peter B ^a   Sato, Alicia ^a   Sun, Xiao ^b   Mehrotra, Devan V ^b  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Immune responses; Statistical analysis; Vaccine trial

Indexed keywords

VACCINE;

ARTICLE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOGENICITY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACCINES;

EID: 57649217611     PISSN: 0264410X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2008.10.083     Document Type: Article

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