Independence after adaptive allocation

Statistics and Probability Letters

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 214-224

  Bélisle, Claude ^a   Melfi, Vince ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive allocation; Clinical trials; Randomized allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 38149076398     PISSN: 01677152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.spl.2007.05.021     Document Type: Article

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