Overview

Clinical trials have two purposes -- to treat the patients in the trial, and to obtain information which increases our understanding of the disease and especially how patients respond to treatment. Statistical design provides a means to achieve both these aims, while statistical data analysis provides methods for extracting useful information from the trial data. Recent advances in statistical computing have enabled statisticians to implement very rapidly a broad array of methods which previously were either impractical or impossible. Biostatisticians are now able to provide much greater support to medical researchers working in both clinical and laboratory settings. As our collective toolkit of techniques for analyzing data has grown, it has become increasingly difficult for biostatisticians to keep up with all the developments in our own field. Recent Advances in Clinical Trial Design and Analysis brings together biostatisticians doing cutting-edge research and explains some of the more recent developments in biostatistics to clinicians and scientists who work in clinical trials.

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Author:   Peter F. Thall
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995
Volume:   75
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781461358305

ISBN 10:   1461358302
Pages:   258
Publication Date:   05 October 2012
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

1. The alpha spending function approach to interim data analyses.- 2. Issues in the design and analysis of AIDS clinical trials.- 3. Recent developments in the design of phase II clinical trials.- 4. Multivariate failure time data.- 5. Goodness-of-fit and diagnostics for proportional hazards regression models.- 6. A review of tree-based prognostic models.- 7. Decision analysis and Bayesian methods in clinical trials.- 8. A Bayesian model for evaluating specificity of treatment effects in clinical trials.- 9. The exact analysis of contingency tables in medical research.- 10. Stratified-adjusted versus unstratified assessment of sample size and power for analyses of proportions.- 11. Quality-of-life assessment in clinical trials.

Reviews

' ... I would recommend the book to biostatisticians who want to stay up-to-date on recent developments in the design and analysis of clinical trials.' Annals of Oncology, 7 (1996) ' ... I can certainly recommend it as a very useful addition to a multidisciplinary library. Many of the topics coverd are yet to reach standard textbooks; their accumulation under one title is a valuable contributions.' Clinical Oncology, 9:4 (1997)

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