Estimation for an adaptive allocation design

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 309-319

  Rosenberger, William F ^a   Sriram, T N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive designs; Consistency; Fixed size confidence intervals; Fully sequential procedure; Generalized P lya urn; Information; Law of the iterated logarithm; Martingales

Indexed keywords

EID: 0031569663     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0378-3758(96)00109-7     Document Type: Article

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