Estimating the superiority of a drug to a placebo when all and only those patients at risk are treated with the drug.

DOI10.1073/pnas.86.9.3003zbMath0665.62108WikidataQ33851860 ScholiaQ33851860MaRDI QIDQ3816886

Herbert Robbins, Cun-Hui Zhang

Publication date: 1989

Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.86.9.3003

zbMATH Keywords

clinical trials; u,v method; drug testing; estimation under biased sampling

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

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