A simulation study of the validity and efficiency of design-adaptive allocation to two groups in the regression situation

International Journal of Biostatistics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Aickin, Mikel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Covariate balance; Dynamic allocation; Minimization; Randomization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; METHODOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRODUCTIVITY; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 67650973680     PISSN: 15574679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1557-4679.1144     Document Type: Article

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