The k-in-a-row up-and-down design, revisited

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1805-1820

  Oron, Assaf P ^a   Hoff, Peter D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive designs; Anesthesiology; Percentile finding; Phase I; Sensory studies; Staircase methods; Up and down

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PROBABILITY; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANESTHESIOLOGY; ANESTHETICS, INTRAVENOUS; BIOMETRY; CLINICAL TRIALS, PHASE I AS TOPIC; HUMANS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAIN; PROPOFOL; THIOPENTAL;

EID: 69949108832     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3590     Document Type: Article

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