Parametric non-mixture cure models for schedule finding of therapeutic agents

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 58, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 225-236

  Liu, Changying A ^a   Braun, Thomas M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive design; Bayesian statistics; Dose finding study; Phase I trial; Weibull distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 63849152644     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2008.00660.x     Document Type: Article

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