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Strategy and statistics in clinical trials : a non-statisticians guide to thinking, designing, and executing /

Strategy and Statistics in Clinical Trials is for all individuals engaged in clinical research, including professors, physicians, researchers in corporate and government laboratories, nurses, members of the allied health professions, and post-doctoral and graduate students who are potentially less e...

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Main Authors: Tal, Joseph.
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Published: Academic Press,
Publisher Address: Amsterdam ; Boston :
Publication Dates: 2011.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Subjects:
Clinical trials > Statistical methods.
Statistics as Topic.
Clinical trials / Statistical methods.
Electronic books.
Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123869098
Summary: Strategy and Statistics in Clinical Trials is for all individuals engaged in clinical research, including professors, physicians, researchers in corporate and government laboratories, nurses, members of the allied health professions, and post-doctoral and graduate students who are potentially less exposed to understanding the pivotal role of statistics. . Enables nonstatisticians to better understand research processes and statistics' role in these processes . Offers real-life case studies and provides a practical, "how to" guide to biomedical R & D . Delineates the statistical building blocks and concepts of clinical trials . Promotes effective cooperation between statisticians and important other parties.
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (ix, 267 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780123869920
0123869927
9780123869098
0123869099
Index Number: R853
CLC: R4
Contents: Clinical development and statistics: the general view -- Questions for planning trials -- Medical product attributes -- Setting research objectives -- Statistical thinking -- Estimation -- From description to testing: a beginning -- Statistical significance, explanation and prediction -- Exploratory and confirmatory clinical trials -- One, two, three testing: hypothesis testing and multiplicity -- Elements of clinical trial design I: putting it together -- Elements of clinical trial design II -- Endpoints -- Sample size -- Concluding remarks.

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