A generalized drop-the-loser rule for multi-treatment clinical trials

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2011-2023

  Sun, Ruibo ^a   Cheung, Siu Hung ^b   Zhang, Li Xin ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

^b CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Delayed response; Play the winner rule; Response adaptive design; Strong consistency

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846390739     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2006.06.039     Document Type: Article

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