Properties of frequency distributions induced by general 'up-and-down' methods for estimating quantiles

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 51-63

  Giovagnoli, Alessandra ^a   Pintacuda, Nicolò ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adaptive designs; Invariant distribution; Markovian experiments; Primary 62L05; Quantal response curve; Secondary 62G05; Sequential designs; Sequential experiments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003014746     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(98)00076-7     Document Type: Article

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