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- 1983
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- Volume
- 70
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- 3
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- 659-659
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- 1660
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K. K. Gordon Lan,
David L. DeMets
(1983).
Discrete Sequential Boundaries for Clinical Trials.
Biometrika
, 70
(3)
, 659-659.
https://doi.org/10.2307/2336502
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- 10.2307/2336502