An adaptive allocation for continuous response using Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney score

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 123, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 207-224

  Bandyopadhyay, Uttam ^a   Biswas, Atanu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Location alternative; Randomized play the winner rule; Treatment allocation; Urn model

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142815685     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-3758(03)00147-2     Document Type: Article

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