Optimum treatment allocation rules under a variance heterogeneity model

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 27, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 4581-4595

  Wong, Weng Kee ^a   Zhu, Wei ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Stony Brook University   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous design; DA optimal design; Efficiency; Multiple objective optimal design

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BIOSTATISTICS; CANCER PREVENTION; CANCER RESEARCH; CANCER SCREENING; CONTROLLED STUDY; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PROCESS DESIGN; PRODUCTIVITY; RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTHRITIS, RHEUMATOID; BIOMETRY; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEOPLASMS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 53349154121     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3318     Document Type: Article

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