Stochastic modeling and prediction for accrual in clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 649-658

  Zhang, Xiaoxi ^a   Long, Qi ^b  

^a PFIZER INC   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Clinical trials; Cubic B splines; Non homogeneous poisson process; Patient accrual

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CLINICAL TRIAL; METHODOLOGY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC MODEL;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; PATIENT DROPOUTS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 77649202373     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3847     Document Type: Article

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