Confidence intervals for ratios of AUCs in the case of serial sampling: A comparison of seven methods

Pharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 12-24

  Jaki, Thomas ^a   Wolfsegger, Martin J ^b   Ploner, Meinhard ^c  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b BAXTER INNOVATIONS GMBH   (Austria)

^c NONE

Author keywords

AUC; Bioequivalence; Bootstrap; Serial sacrifice design; Serial sampling design; Sparse sampling

Indexed keywords

DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BIOEQUIVALENCE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLINICAL STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG ELIMINATION; DRUG RESEARCH; IN VIVO STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; POWER ANALYSIS; RAT; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PHARMACOKINETICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AREA UNDER CURVE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; PHARMACOKINETICS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; THERAPEUTIC EQUIVALENCY;

EID: 65649153633     PISSN: 15391604     EISSN: 15391612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pst.321     Document Type: Article

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