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PrefacesFirst EditionClinical trials are experiments performed on human subjects, usuallypatients, in order to assess the efficacy of a treatment that is under investigation.Over the last two to three decades randomized concurrently controlledclinical trials have become established as the method whichinvestigators must use to assess new treatments if their claims are to findwidespread acceptance. The methodology underpinning these trials is firmlybased in statistical theory, and the success of randomized trials perhapsconstitutes the greatest achievement of statistics in the second half of thetwentieth century. As such it is important that students of statistics shouldbe able to study this area of their subject as soon as possible in their courses.Whereas there are many excellent books on clinical trial methodology,almost all are written for the practitioner, whether statistician or doctor, whois about to participate in the running of a trial. There is a natural tendencyin such books both to cover administrative issues and to keep to a minimumany mathematical passages. However, while trial administration is ofundoubted importance, too much emphasis on it is unnecessary and anunwelc

Who reads Introduction to Randomized Controlled Clinical Trials, Second Edition (Texts in Statistical Science Series)?

Author

John N.S. Matthews

Publisher

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781138469501

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Mathematics, Science