Increasing efficiency of preclinical research by group sequential designs.
Despite the potential benefits of sequential designs, studies evaluating treatments or experimental manipulations in preclinical experimental biomedicine almost exclusively use classical block designs. Our aim with this article is to bring the existing methodology of group sequential designs to the...
Main Authors: | Konrad Neumann, Ulrike Grittner, Sophie K Piper, Andre Rex, Oscar Florez-Vargas, George Karystianis, Alice Schneider, Ian Wellwood, Bob Siegerink, John P A Ioannidis, Jonathan Kimmelman, Ulrich Dirnagl |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2017-03-01
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Series: | PLoS Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2001307 |
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