Doubly adaptive biased coin designs with delayed responses

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 541-559

  Hu, Feifang ^a   Zhang, Li Xin ^b   Cheung, Siu H ^c,d   Chan, Wai S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Adaptive design; Asymptotic normality; Biased coin design; Clinical trial; Response adaptive design; Strong consistency; Variance estimation

Indexed keywords

EID: 59149083512     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cjs.5550360404     Document Type: Article

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