Ethical Issues in the Conduct of Medical Trials in View of the Availability of New Statistical Methods

FAIN: RH-20056-82

Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3815)
Joseph B. Kadane (Project Director: October 1981 to October 1990)

To support an investigation to determine whether new statistical methods and advances in decision theory applied to medical research can resolve apparent conflict between the scientific requirement for statistically acceptable data and the ethical and legal constraints on human experimentation.