Some issues in predicting patient recruitment in multi-centre clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 32, Issue 30, 2013, Pages 5458-5468

  Bakhshi, Andisheh ^a,b   Senn, Stephen ^a,c   Phillips, Alan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^c LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Luxembourg)

^d ICON CLINICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Empirical Bayes; Gamma distribution; Negative binomial distribution; Poisson distribution

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); PARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; RESEARCH SUBJECT;

EMPIRICAL BAYES; GAMMA DISTRIBUTION; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

BAYES THEOREM; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; DYSPEPSIA; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 84897058413     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.5979     Document Type: Article

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