Power and sample size simulations for Randomized Play-the-Winner rules

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 487-499

  Guimaraes, Paulo ^a   Palesch, Yuko ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Randomized Play the Winner; Response adaptive randomization; Sample size

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CALCULATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; MEDICAL ETHICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POWER ANALYSIS; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RANDOMIZED PLAY THE WINNER; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS; SAMPLE SIZE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34248538115     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2007.01.006     Document Type: Article

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