Correction to: Two-stage Bayesian hierarchical modeling for blinded and unblinded safety monitoring in randomized clinical trials.

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Correction to: BMC Med Res Methodol 20, 211 (2020)

https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-020-01097-6

Following publication of the original article [1], the authors would like to correct a sentence in the second paragraph under the heading Discussion.

The sentence currently reads:

The Beta-Binomial model was originally proposed by Ball, and further development of the Binomial model was introduced in his recent safety monitoring paper as well [27].

The sentence should read:

The Beta-Binomial model was originally proposed by Ball, and further development of bridging blinded and unblinded analysis was introduced in Lin’s recent safety monitoring paper as well [27].