Barely Significant
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When and how can endpoints be changed after initiation of a randomized clinical trial?

PLoS Clin Trials · 2007 · PMC1852589 · PMID 17443237

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New endpoints may be selected because they displayed a trend towards significance, while other candidate endpoints may have been examined but not selected or reported because they failed to display a desirable trend; this increases the chance of false positive (type 1) errors.

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