Book Details

Statistical Monitoring of Clinical Trials

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-0-387-44970-8

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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. The so-called B-value approach to monitoring allows us to use, for different types of trials, the same boundaries and the same simple formula for computing conditional power.


Subject: Mathematics and Statistics, Survival analysis, biometrics, clinical trials, correlation, mathematical statistics, methodology, monitoring, statistics