Bayesian versus frequentist hypotheses testing in clinical trials with dichotomous and countable outcomes

Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 985-997

  Zaslavsky, Boris G ^a  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta distribution; Gamma distribution; Hypothesis; p Value; Posterior distribution; Prior distribution

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYESIAN LEARNING; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ALGORITHMS; BAYES THEOREM; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOSTATISTICS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FACTOR VIII; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMOPHILIA A; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955879953     PISSN: 10543406     EISSN: 15205711     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10543401003619023     Document Type: Article

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