Optimum treatment allocation for dual-objective clinical trials with binary outcomes

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Volumn 29, Issue 5-6, 2000, Pages 957-974

  Zhu, Wei ^a   Wong, Weng Kee ^b  

^a Stony Brook University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Compound optimal design; Constrained optimal design; Efficiency plot; Logistic regression model

Indexed keywords

EID: 26844569178     PISSN: 03610926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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