Drop-the-losers design: Binomial case

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 586-595

  Sill, Michael W ^a,b   Sampson, Allan R ^c  

^a ROSWELL PARK CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DROPS; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION;

CLINICAL DEVELOPMENTS; CLINICAL TRIALS; EXACT CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; MODEL-BASED; PHASE II; TWO PHASES; TWO STAGES;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EID: 56349171608     PISSN: 01679473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csda.2008.07.031     Document Type: Article

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