Download or read book Proceedings of the Fourth Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics: Clinical Trials written by Thomas R. Fleming and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-12 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains a selection of chapters base on papers presented at the Fourth Seattle Symposium in Biostatistics: Clinical Trials. The symposium was held in 2010 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the University of Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine. It featured keynote lectures by David DeMets and Susan Ellenberg and 16 invited presentations by other prominent researchers. The papers contained in this volume encompass recent methodological advances in several important clinical trials research, such as biomarkers, meta-analyses, sequential and adaptive clinical trials, and various genetic bioinformatic techniques. This volume will be a valuable reference for researchers and practitioners in the field of clinical trials.