A theoretical analysis of the power of biased coin designs

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 138, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1792-1798

  Antognini, Alessandro Baldi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balance; Biased coin; Markov chains; Power; Stochastic orders

Indexed keywords

EID: 39449094860     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2007.06.033     Document Type: Article

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