Adaptive choice of patient subgroup for comparing two treatments

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 191-200

  Lai, Tze Leung ^a   Lavori, Philip W ^a   Liao, Olivia Yueh Wen ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ONYX PHARMACEUTICALS   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive selection; Generalized likelihood ratio statistics; Group sequential design; Kullback Leibler information; Multiple testing; Normalized wilcoxon statistic

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CHOICE; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANK SUM TEST; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STROKE PATIENT; THEORY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SAMPLE SIZE; STROKE;

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 84910072294     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2014.09.001     Document Type: Article

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