An application of reinforced urn processes to determining maximum tolerated dose

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 77, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 740-747

  Mezzetti, Maura ^a   Muliere, Pietro ^b   Bulla, Paolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b BOCCONI UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Maximum tolerated dose; Phase I; Urn scheme

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947110834     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2006.11.010     Document Type: Article

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