Drop-the-loser design in the presence of covariates

Metrika

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 1-15

  Bandyopadhyay, Uttam ^a   Biswas, Atanu ^b   Bhattacharya, Rahul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^c ASUTOSH COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Adaptive allocation; Covariate; Ethics

Indexed keywords

EID: 60649114895     PISSN: 00261335     EISSN: 1435926X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00184-008-0170-y     Document Type: Article

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