Group up-and-down designs for dose-finding

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 136, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1749-1764

  Gezmu, Misrak ^a   Flournoy, Nancy ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive designs; Applied probability; Birth and death processes; Clinical trials; Markov chains; Phase I clinical trials; Random walks; Toxicity studies

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044468998     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2005.08.002     Document Type: Article

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