A hybrid selection and testing procedure with curtailment for comparative clinical trials

Sequential Analysis

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 2-20

  Buzaianu, Elena M ^a   Chen, Pinyuen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bernoulli population; Better efficiency; Clinical trials; Correct selection; Curtailment; Sample size

Indexed keywords

BERNOULLI POPULATIONS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORRECT SELECTION; CURTAILMENT; SAMPLE SIZES;

STATISTICS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 61449233330     PISSN: 07474946     EISSN: 15324176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07474940802618990     Document Type: Article

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