Conditional rejection probabilities of student's t-test and design adaptations

Biometrical Journal

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 389-403

  Posch, Martin ^a   Timmesfeld, Nina ^b   König, Franz ^a   Müller, Hans Helge ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive designs; Conditional rejection probabilities; Design adaptions; Nonstochastic curtailment; Stochastic curtailment; t test

Indexed keywords

DESIGN;

ADAPTIVE DESIGNS; CONDITIONAL REJECTION PROBABILITY; DESIGN ADAPTATIONS; DESIGN ADAPTION; NON-STOCHASTIC; NONSTOCHASTIC CURTAILMENT; REJECTION PROBABILITY; STOCHASTIC CURTAILMENT; STOCHASTICS; T-TESTS;

STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

EID: 11844299859     PISSN: 03233847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bimj.200410042     Document Type: Article

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