Using simulation to aid trial design: Ring-vaccination trials.

BACKGROUND:The 2014-6 West African Ebola epidemic highlights the need for rigorous, rapid clinical trial methods for vaccines. A challenge for trial design is making sample size calculations based on incidence within the trial, total vaccine effect, and intracluster correlation, when these parameter...

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Main Authors: Matt David Thomas Hitchings, Rebecca Freeman Grais, Marc Lipsitch
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-03-01
Series:PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5378415?pdf=render