The impact of selection bias on test decisions in randomized clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 2573-2581

  Kennes, Lieven Nils ^a   Cramer, Erhard ^a   Hilgers, Ralf Dieter ^a   Heussen, Nicole ^a  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multicentertrials; Permuted block randomization; Random allocation rule; Selection bias; Stratified randomization; Underrunning

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PATIENT PREFERENCE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLING ERROR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STRATIFIED SAMPLE;

FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SELECTION BIAS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 80051911755     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4279     Document Type: Article

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