# Trial Size for Near-Optimal Choice Between Surveillance and Aggressive Treatment: Reconsidering MSLT-II

@article{Manski2019TrialSF,
title={Trial Size for Near-Optimal Choice Between Surveillance and Aggressive Treatment: Reconsidering MSLT-II},
author={Charles F. Manski and Aleksey Tetenov},
journal={The American Statistician},
year={2019},
volume={73},
pages={305 - 311}
}
• Published 20 March 2019
• Medicine
• The American Statistician
Abstract A convention in designing randomized clinical trials has been to choose sample sizes that yield specified statistical power when testing hypotheses about treatment response. Manski and Tetenov recently critiqued this convention and proposed enrollment of sufficiently many subjects to enable near-optimal treatment choices. This article develops a refined version of that analysis applicable to trials comparing aggressive treatment of patients with surveillance. The need for a refined… Expand
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