Optimal adaptive randomized designs for clinical trials

Biometrika

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 673-687

  Cheng, Yi ^a   Berry, Donald A ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Backward induction; Balanced design; Decision theory; Induction; Jensen?s inequality; Martingale convergence theorem; Multiple arms; Optimal design; Randomized sequential allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548537745     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asm049     Document Type: Article

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