Estimation following selection of the largest of two normal means

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1629-1638

  Stallard, Nigel ^a   Todd, Susan ^b   Whitehead, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Clinical trial analysis; Select and test designs; Treatment selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449090973     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.05.045     Document Type: Article

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