Prediction of accrual closure date in multi-center clinical trials with discrete-time Poisson process models

Pharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 351-356

  Tang, Gong ^a,b   Kong, Yuan ^c   Chang, Chung Chou Ho ^a,d   Kong, Lan ^e   Costantino, Joseph P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b NSABP Foundation Inc   (United States)

^c BIOGEN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

accrual closure; phase III clinical trials; Poisson processes

Indexed keywords

ACCRUAL CLOSURE DATE; ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; DATA ANALYSIS; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEASUREMENT; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTION; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE III AS TOPIC; FEMALE; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SELECTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84866414853     PISSN: 15391604     EISSN: 15391612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pst.1506     Document Type: Article

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