Selection procedures in multi-treatment clinical trials

Metron

Volumn 60, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 143-157

  Bandyopadhyay, Uttam ^a   Biswas, Atanu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Error probability; Expected successes lost; Randomized play the winner rule; Urn model

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847696738     PISSN: 00261424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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