Exact confidence bounds following adaptive group sequential tests

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 539-546

  Brannath, Werner ^a   Mehta, Cyrus R ^b,c   Posch, Martin ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Cytel Incorporated   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Confirmatory trial; Estimation; Flexible design; Repeated confidence interval; Stage wise ordering

Indexed keywords

ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CONFIDENCE BOUNDS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONFIRMATORY TRIAL; FLEXIBLE DESIGNS; P-VALUES; POINT ESTIMATE; REPEATED CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; SEQUENTIAL TESTS; STAGE-WISE ORDERING;

BIOMETRICS;

DESIGN; ESTIMATION METHOD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISORDER; TESTING METHOD;

ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; METHODOLOGY; PARKINSON DISEASE; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 66949175586     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01101.x     Document Type: Article

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