Biased coin design with imbalance tolerance

Communications in Statistics. Part C: Stochastic Models

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 953-975

  Chen, Yung Pin ^a  

^a SMITH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased coin design; Big stick design; High order transition probability; Imbalance; Markov chain; Selection bias; Sequential clinical trial

Indexed keywords

EID: 0343035925     PISSN: 08820287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15326349908807570     Document Type: Article

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