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LOGRANK, PLAY THE WINNER, POWER AND ETHICS

✍ Scribed by AL HALLSTROM; MARIA MORI BROOKS; MONIKA PECKOVA

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
1996
Tongue
English
Weight
486 KB
Volume
15
Category
Article
ISSN
0277-6715

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✦ Synopsis

We show by simulation and numerical integration techniques that power is largely unaffected by play the winner strategies in a typical chronic disease mortality trial utilizing the logrank test. This raises the issue of the ethics of equal allocation in such a setting.

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