Statistical strategies for the analysis of clinical trials with an experimental treatment, an active control and placebo, and a prespecified fixed non-inferiority margin for the difference in means

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 26, 2011, Pages 3162-3164

  Röhmel, Joachim ^a   Pigeot, Iris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; NULL HYPOTHESIS; POWER ANALYSIS; SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 80055086038     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4299     Document Type: Letter

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