Evaluating the efficacy of a malaria vaccine

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Small, Dylan S ^a   Cheng, Jing ^b   Ten Have, Thomas R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Attributable fraction; Case definition; Causal inference

Indexed keywords

MALARIA VACCINE; PLACEBO;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; DRUG EFFICACY; FEVER; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; MALARIA; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARASITE; PROBABILITY; PROPHYLAXIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIMULATION; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MALARIA FALCIPARUM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CHILD; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEVER; HUMANS; MALARIA; MALARIA VACCINES; MALARIA, FALCIPARUM; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77649329556     PISSN: 15574679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1201     Document Type: Article

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