Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials: A Unified Approach - Couverture rigide

Livre 19 sur 69: Statistics for Biology and Health

Proschan, Michael A.; Lan, K. K. Gordon; Wittes, Janet Turk

 
9780387300597: Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials: A Unified Approach

Synopsis

The approach taken in this book is, to studies monitored over time, what the Central Limit Theorem is to studies with only one analysis. Just as the Central Limit Theorem shows that test statistics involving very different types of clinical trial outcomes are asymptotically normal, this book shows that the joint distribution of the test statistics at different analysis times is asymptotically multivariate normal with the correlation structure of Brownian motion ("the B-value") - irrespective of the test statistic. Thus, this book offers statisticians an accessible, incremental approach to understanding Brownian motion as related to clinical trials. The main body of the chapters is accessible to anyone with knowledge of a standard mathematical statistics text. More mathematically advanced readers will find rigorous developments in appendices at the end of chapters. Reading the book will develop insight into not only monitoring, but power, survival analysis, safety, and other statistical issues germane to clinical trials.

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9781441921345: Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials: A Unified Approach

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ISBN 10 :  1441921346 ISBN 13 :  9781441921345
Editeur : Springer, 2010
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