Courses

STA 526LEC Clncal Trials/Design Anal

Introduction to fundamental principles and planning tech­niques for designing and analyzing statistical experiments. Recommended for students in applied fields. Topics: Justification for randomized controlled clinical trials, methods of randomization, blinding and placebos, ethical issues, parallel groups design, crossover trials, inclusion of covariates, determining sample size, sequential designs, interim analyses, repeated measures studies.