Mathematical aspects of estimating two treatment effects and a common variance in an assured allocation design

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 108, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 255-262

  Levin, Bruce ^a   Robbins, Herbert ^b   Zhang, Cun Hui ^b  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assured allocation design; Controlled clinical trials; Empirical Bayes estimation; Inequalities; Mixture models; Normal distribution; Semiparametric models; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036840319     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(02)00312-9     Document Type: Article

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