SAE: An R package for early stopping rules in clinical trials

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 243-248

  Bascoul Mollevi, C ^a   Laplanche, A ^b   Le Deley, M C ^b   Kramar, A ^c  

^a CENTRE VAL D AURELLE   (France)

^b INSTITUT GUSTAVE ROUSSY   (France)

^c CENTRE OSCAR LAMBRET   (France)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Early stopping rules; Serious adverse events

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EVENTS; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECISION MAKING PROCESS; EARLY STOPPING; FUNCTION CONTROL; HIGH FREQUENCY; PLANNING PHASE; STOPPING RULE;

DECISION MAKING; EXPERIMENTS;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER LANGUAGE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; DECISION MAKING; DRUG SAFETY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MORTALITY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); R PACKAGE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NEUROECTODERMAL TUMORS;

EID: 80054110234     PISSN: 01692607     EISSN: 18727565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cmpb.2011.05.005     Document Type: Article

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