The power of Efron's biased coin design

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1824-1835

  Chen, Yung Pin ^a  

^a LEWIS AND CLARK COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive design; Balance; Biased coin design; High order transition probability; Markov chain; Power

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044458239     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2005.08.006     Document Type: Article

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