A randomized longitudinal play-the-winner design for repeated binary data

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 675-684

  Biswas, Atanu ^a   Dewanji, Anup ^a  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptive design; Allocation probability; Longitudinal observations; Performance characteristics; Pulsed electro magnetic field; Randomized play the winner rule

Indexed keywords

EID: 11844298990     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2004.00362.x     Document Type: Article

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