Generalized likelihood ratio statistics and uncertainty adjustments in efficient adaptive design of clinical trials

Sequential Analysis

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 254-276

  Bartroff, Jay ^a   Lai, Tze Leung ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hoeffding's information bound; Internal pilot; Kullback Leibler information; Modified Haybittle Peto test; Multiparameter exponential family; Sample size re estimation

Indexed keywords

EXPONENTIAL FAMILY; HOEFFDING'S INFORMATION BOUND; INTERNAL PILOT; KULLBACK-LEIBLER INFORMATION; SAMPLE SIZES;

EXPERIMENTS; PROBABILITY;

DESIGN;

EID: 49549119201     PISSN: 07474946     EISSN: 15324176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07474940802241009     Document Type: Conference Paper

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