Targeting the optimal design in randomized clinical trials with binary outcomes and no covariate: Theoretical study

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Chambaz, Antoine ^a   Van Der Laan, Mark J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive design; canonical distribution; coarsening at random; contiguity; group sequential testing; maximum likelihood; randomized clinical trial

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STOCHASTIC MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; MEASUREMENT ERROR; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 79951475763     PISSN: 15574679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1247     Document Type: Article

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