Adaptive clinical trial designs to detect interaction between treatment and a dichotomous biomarker

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 525-539

  Zhu, Hongjian ^a   Hu, Feifang ^b   Zhao, Hongyu ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive design; Clinical trial; Personalized medicine; Power; Treatment biomarker interaction

Indexed keywords

EID: 84881613440     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: 1708945X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.11184     Document Type: Article

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