Sequential balancing: A simple method for treatment allocation in clinical trials

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 637-645

  Borm, George Florimond ^a   Hoogendoorn, Elizabeth H ^a   Den Heijer, Martin ^a   Zielhuis, Gerhard A ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Balance; Clinical trial; Minimisation; Randomisation; Subject allocation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; METHODOLOGY; PERFORMANCE; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZATION; SEQUENTIAL ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; VARIANCE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BONE DENSITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IODINE RADIOISOTOPES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS;

EID: 28344447732     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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