Test homogeneity of risk difference across subgroups in clinical trials

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 67-76

  Zhang, Lanju ^a   Yang, Harry ^a   Cho, Iksung ^a  

^a MEDIMMUNE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contingency tables; Parse data; Score test; Type I error rate

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

ALGORITHMS; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIPLE MYELOMA; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60749103631     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: 15205711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543400802527874     Document Type: Article

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