Sequential Testing to Guarantee the Necessary Sample Size in Clinical Trials

DOI10.1080/03610920902947584zbMath1175.62085MaRDI QIDQ3645030

Andrew. L. Rukhin

Publication date: 16 November 2009

Published in: Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610920902947584

zbMATH Keywords

clinical trials; Poisson process; locally optimal test; Borel distribution; Lagrangian Poisson distribution; enrollment process

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

62M99: Inference from stochastic processes

62L10: Sequential statistical analysis

62L15: Optimal stopping in statistics

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