Utilizing the integrated difference of two survival functions to quantify the treatment contrast for designing, monitoring, and analyzing a comparative clinical study

Clinical Trials

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 570-577

  Zhao, Lihui ^a   Tian, Lu ^b   Uno, Hajime ^c,d   Solomon, Scott D ^e   Pfeffer, Marc A ^e   Schindler, Jerald S ^f   Wei, Lee Jen ^c  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAZARD RATIO; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; SAMPLE SIZE; STUDY DESIGN; SURVIVAL RATE;

CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84867543135     PISSN: 17407745     EISSN: 17407753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1740774512455464     Document Type: Article

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