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

DOI10.1002/bimj.201500228zbMath1369.62304OpenAlexW2400336716WikidataQ38866634 ScholiaQ38866634MaRDI QIDQ5280174

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

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 theoryPoisson distributionBayesianoptimal sample sizeclinical trial designexact optimal sample sizeexponential family form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Bayesian problems; characterization of Bayes procedures (62C10) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05)

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