Asymptotics in response-adaptive designs generated by a two-color, randomly reinforced urn

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1058-1078

  May, Caterina ^a,b   Flournoy, Nancy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive designs; Asymptotic normality; Clinical trials; Estimation and inference; Ethical allocation; Generalized P lya urn; Mixing convergence; Optimal allocation; Rate of convergence; Testing mean differences; Treatment allocation; Two sample t test

Indexed keywords

EID: 65349171931     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/08-AOS596     Document Type: Article

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