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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-3-10
pubmed:abstractText
Interim analyses are those that occur before the scheduled completion of a clinical study. The motivation for such analyses may be to see whether conclusive evidence is available concerning the aims of the study, or it may be simple curiosity. Statisticians disagree about the impact that interim analyses have on inferences that can be drawn from the study. The significance testing view insists that conclusions from a study with interim analyses are different than from one without--even though the data are identical. In the Bayesian view there is no penalty for interim analyses: study results can even be monitored continually without changing the conclusions. Both views are explained and recommendations for designing and analyzing studies with interim analyses are made.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0735-7907
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
469-77
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1987
pubmed:articleTitle
Interim analyses in clinical research.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Statistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.