Estimating the superiority of a drug to a placebo when all and only those patients at risk are treated with the drug

  1. H Robbins and
  2. C H Zhang
  1. Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08903.

Abstract

It is shown that, under certain assumptions, one can estimate the difference between the effect of a treatment and that of a placebo even when the treatment has been given to all and only those patients who are at risk (as evidenced by a screening examination).

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