Doubly adaptive biased coin designs with heterogeneous responses

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 139, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 3220-3230

  Duan, Liangliang ^a   Hu, Feifang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Clinical trial; Doubly adaptive biased coin design; Heterogeneity; Response adaptive randomization; Treatment allocation

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349275732     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2009.03.004     Document Type: Article

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