Re: Learning clinical trial jargon?

John Uebersax wrote:
Learning the jargon will help a lot.

Here's a good list of definitions:

http://www.actmagazine.com/appliedclinicaltrials/data/articlestandard/appliedclinicaltrials/042004/82712/article.pdf

For more, you can try a Google search: "clinical trials" glossary.

Hope this helps.

--
John Uebersax PhD


I wouldn't go so far as to call it good. Here's the first definition I looked at. (It started with 'a'.) I didn't look at a second.

alpha error. Size of the likelihood
acceptable to the investigators that a
relationship observed between 2 variables
is due to chance the probability of a Type I
error. See also Type 1 error.
.

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