Interim Analysis in Clinical Trials: The Role of the Likelihood Principle

DOI10.2307/2684222zbMath0617.62084OpenAlexW4241774451MaRDI QIDQ4727233

Donald A. Berry

Publication date: 1987

Published in: The American Statistician (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2684222

zbMATH Keywords

Bayesian statisticsclinical trialsconditional inferencelikelihood principleinterim analysis

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Foundations and philosophical topics in statistics (62A01) Sequential statistical design (62L05) Sequential statistical analysis (62L10)

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