Detecting qualitative interaction: A Bayesian approach

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 455-463

  Bayman, Emine Özgür ^a,b   Chaloner, Kathryn ^b   Cowles, Mary Kathryn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes factor; Bayesian subgroup analysis; Multi center clinical trials; Qualitative interaction; Subgroup power

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BAYES THEOREM; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSM; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 76549086181     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3787     Document Type: Article

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