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Medical Clinical Medicine

Methods and Applications of Statistics in Clinical Trials, Volume 2

Planning, Analysis, and Inferential Methods

edited by Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan

Publisher
Wiley
Initial publish date
Jun 2014
Category
Clinical Medicine, Biostatistics, Epidemiology
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9781118304761
    Publish Date
    Jun 2014
    List Price
    $275.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781118595961
    Publish Date
    Jun 2014
    List Price
    $275.95

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Methods and Applications of Statistics in Clinical Trials, Volume 2: Planning, Analysis, and Inferential Methods includes updates of established literature from the Wiley Encyclopedia of Clinical Trials as well as original material based on the latest developments in clinical trials. Prepared by a leading expert, the second volume includes numerous contributions from current prominent experts in the field of medical research. In addition, the volume features:

• Multiple new articles exploring emerging topics, such as evaluation methods with threshold, empirical likelihood methods, nonparametric ROC analysis, over- and under-dispersed models, and multi-armed bandit problems

• Up-to-date research on the Cox proportional hazard model, frailty models, trial reports, intrarater reliability, conditional power, and the kappa index

• Key qualitative issues including cost-effectiveness analysis, publication bias, and regulatory issues, which are crucial to the planning and data management of clinical trials

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Contributor Notes

N. BALAKRISHNAN, PHD, is Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University, Canada. He is the author of over twenty books and is the coeditor of Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Second Edition, also published by Wiley.

Editorial Reviews

“This book provides a good overview on most relevant topics for clinical trials.” (Biometrical Journal, 1 October 2015)

 

 

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