Increasing power in randomized trials with right censored outcomes through covariate adjustment

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1099-1131

  Moore, K L ^a   Van Der Laan, M J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Covariate adjustment; Logrank test; Targeted maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; HAZARD RATIO; LOG RANK TEST; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SURVIVAL;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 75749091223     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: 15205711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543400903243017     Document Type: Article

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