A comparison of the imprecise beta class, the randomized play-the-winner rule and the triangular test for clinical trials with binary responses

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-35

  Gurrin, Lyle C ^a   Burton, Paul R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethics; Imprecise probabilities; Play the winner; Randomized controlled trials; Robust Bayes; Sequential analysis; Triangular test

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846677637     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.00456.x     Document Type: Article

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