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Monitoring clinical trials: Conditional or predictive power?
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Self-citationAn aid to data monitoring in long-term clinical trials
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Self-citationIssues in data monitoring and interim analysis of trials
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- Authors
- Spiegelhalter, D. J., Freedman, L. S., & Blackburn, P. R.
- Venue
- Controlled Clinical Trials
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1986-03
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 8-17
- ISSN
- 0197-2456 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1987825026
- Cited by
- 307
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 5.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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