An overview of sequential methods and their application in clinical trials

DOI10.1080/03610928408828829zbMath0559.62090OpenAlexW2111662913MaRDI QIDQ5185881

K. K. Gordon Lan, David L. Demets

Publication date: 1984

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/03610928408828829

zbMATH Keywords

overviewstochastic curtailmentdata monitoringgroup sequential boundaries

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Sequential statistical analysis (62L10)

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