Determination of the optimal sample size for a clinical trial accounting for the population size

DOI10.1002/bimj.201500228zbMath1369.62304WikidataQ38866634 ScholiaQ38866634MaRDI QIDQ5280174

Martin Posch, Frank Miller, Sarah Zohar, Nigel Stallard, Simon J. Day, Siew Wan Hee, Jason Madan

Publication date: 20 July 2017

Published in: Biometrical Journal (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/bimj.201500228

zbMATH Keywords

decision theory; Poisson distribution; Bayesian; optimal sample size; clinical trial design; exact optimal sample size; exponential family form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

62C10: Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures

62D05: Sampling theory, sample surveys