Practical guide to sample size calculations: An introduction

Pharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 68-74

  Flight, Laura ^a   Julious, Steven A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

clinical trials; equivalence; non inferiority; power; sample size; superiority

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL STUDY; EFFECT SIZE; ERROR; HUMAN; NULL HYPOTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARALLEL DESIGN; POPULATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SAMPLE SIZE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDY DESIGN; VARIANCE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84954379510     PISSN: 15391604     EISSN: 15391612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pst.1709     Document Type: Article

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