The impact of covariate imbalance on the size of the logrank test in randomized clinical trials
โ Scribed by Naoko Kinukawa; Tsuyoshi Nakamura; Kouhei Akazawa; Yoshiaki Nose
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 206 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0277-6715
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