Stuart J. Pocock, Statistical Aspects of Clinical Trial Design, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), Vol. 31, No. 1, Proceedings of the 1981 I.O.S. Annual Conference on Statistics in Medicine (Mar., 1982), pp. 1-18
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