A new 'biased coin design' for the sequential allocation of two treatments

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 651-664

  Antognini, Alessandro Baldi ^a   Giovagnoli, Alessandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balance; Biased coin design; Markov chains; Selection bias; Treatment comparison

Indexed keywords

EID: 4644361171     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2004.00436.x     Document Type: Article

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