Statistical aspects of the design and analysis of clinical trials / Brian S. Everitt, Andrew Pickles.

By:

[Everitt, Brian.]

Contributor(s):

Pickles, Andrew

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: London ; River Edge, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., 1999.Description: xiv, 336 pages : illustrationsISBN:

1860941532
9781860941535

Subject(s):

-- Clinical trials - Statistical methods. -- Statistics - methods

Contents:

An introduction to clinical trials -- Treatment allocation, the size of trials and reporting results -- Monitoring trial progress: outcome measures, compliance, dropouts and interim analyses -- Basic analyses of clinical trials, the generalized linear model and the economic evaluation of trials -- Simple approaches to the analysis of longitudinal data from clinical trials -- Multivariate normal regression models for longitudinal data from clinical trials -- Models for non-normal longitudinal data from clinical trials -- Survival analysis -- Bayesian methods -- Meta-analysis.

Summary: About 8000 clinical trials are undertaken annually in all areas of medicine, from the treatment of acne to the prevention of cancer. Correct interpretation of the data from such trials depends largely on adequate design and on performing the appropriate statistical analyses. In this book, the statistical aspects of both the design and analysis of trials are described, with particular emphasis on recently developed methods of analysis.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Book	ENSIGN LIBRARY	R853.C55 Ev2 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	C.1	Available	ekp 12/11/24

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-331) and index.

About 8000 clinical trials are undertaken annually in all areas of medicine, from the treatment of acne to the prevention of cancer. Correct interpretation of the data from such trials depends largely on adequate design and on performing the appropriate statistical analyses. In this book, the statistical aspects of both the design and analysis of trials are described, with particular emphasis on recently developed methods of analysis.

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