Optimal sequential designs of case-control studies

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 1452-1471

  Chen, Kani ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Fixed width confidence interval; Logistic regression; Sequential sampling; Sequential test of hypotheses; Stochastic approximation; Treatment allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034287158     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aos/1015957402     Document Type: Article

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