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The waiting game: how long is long enough?
Author(s) -
Jones Byron
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2009.00343.x
Subject(s) - simple (philosophy) , computer science , operations research , mathematics , epistemology , philosophy
The time it takes to recruit patients into a clinical trial has a major impact on whether a drug development programme completes on time. Here Byron Jones explains how simple statistical models can be very useful in predicting the time to complete recruitment.