TY - BOOK AU - Whitehead,John TI - Design and analysis of sequential clinical trials T2 - Statistics in practice SN - 0-471-97550-8 PY - 1997/// CY - Chichester [etc.] PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - Diseño experimental KW - Análisis secuencial KW - Ensayos clínicos N2 - In sequential clinical trials, data from patients treated at the beginning of a trial can be analyzed while the trial is still in progress and subsequent patients can be recruited. This analysis provides stopping rules whereby the number of patients involved can be limited without affecting the results ER -