An alternative approach to confidence interval estimation for the win ratio statistic

Biometrics

Volumn 71, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 139-145

  Luo, Xiaodong ^a   Tian, Hong ^b   Mohanty, Surya ^b   Tsai, Wei Yann ^c  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JANSSEN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (Belgium)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Composite endpoints; Hypothesis testing; Variance estimation; Win ratio

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS;

CLINICAL TRIAL; CLOSED FORM; COMPOSITE ENDPOINT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL ESTIMATION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NULL HYPOTHESIS; STATISTICAL FRAMEWORK; VARIANCE ESTIMATION; VARIANCE ESTIMATORS; WIN RATIO;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

DISEASE TREATMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEALTH CARE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 10A INHIBITOR; RIVAROXABAN;

ALGORITHM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MORTALITY; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STROKE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACTOR XA INHIBITORS; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RIVAROXABAN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS; STROKE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84961289062     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/biom.12225     Document Type: Article

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