Response-adaptive randomization for survival trials: The parametric approach

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 153-165

  Zhang, Lanju ^a,c   Rosenberger, William F ^b  

^a Medlmmune Inc   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MEDIMMUNE   (United States)

Author keywords

Censoring; Delayed responses; Doubly adaptive biased coin design; Exponential distribution; Optimal allocation; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 33947654793     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2007.00571.x     Document Type: Article

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