Selection and bias-two hostile brothers

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-13

  Bauer, Peter ^a   Koenig, Franz ^b   Brannatha, Werner ^a   Poscha, Martin ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b EUROPEAN MEDICINES AGENCY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Admission bias; Many one comparison; Mean bias; Mean square error; Sample size reassessment; Treatment selection

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICS; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT SELECTION;

AREA UNDER CURVE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; GUANIDINES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SODIUM-HYDROGEN ANTIPORTER; SULFONES;

EID: 74849099932     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3716     Document Type: Article

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