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Some Aspects of the Application of Internal Pilot Studies

✍ Scribed by Peter A. Lachenbruch; Janet Wittes

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 46 KB
Volume: 48
Category: Article
ISSN: 0323-3847
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200610243

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Abstract

This is a discussion of the paper' Sample size recalculation in internal pilot study designs' by Tim Friede and Meinhard Kieser, appearing in this special issue on adaptive designs. (© 2006 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)

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