Blinded sample size recalculation for clinical trials with normal data and baseline adjusted analysis

Pharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 8-13

  Friede, Tim ^a   Kieser, Meinhard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

analysis of covariance; baseline adjustment; baseline variables; clinical trials; internal pilot study; sample size recalculation

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ERROR; PILOT STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 79551548989     PISSN: 15391604     EISSN: 15391612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pst.398     Document Type: Article

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