Applying Bayesian ideas in drug development and clinical trials.

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Published in Stat Med on August 01, 1993

Authors

D J Spiegelhalter1, L S Freedman, M K Parmar

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1: MRC Biostatistics Unit, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge, U.K.

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