A design for testing clinical strategies: Biased adaptive within-subject randomization

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 163, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 29-38

  Lavori, Philip W ^a,c   Dawson, Ree ^b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b FRONTIER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive randomization; Design of clinical trials; Time varying treatments

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034364917     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-985X.00154     Document Type: Article

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