Randomization by minimization for unbalanced treatment allocation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 27, 2009, Pages 3329-3346

  Han, Baoguang ^a   Enas, Nathan H ^a   McEntegart, Damian ^b  

^a ELI LILLY AND COMPANY   (United States)

^b ClinPhone   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biased coin minimization; Marginal balance; Minimization; Prognostic factors; Randomization; Unbalanced treatment allocation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIASED COIN MINIMIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; METHODOLOGY; NAIVE MINIMIZATION; PROBABILITY; PROGNOSIS; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; UNBALANCED TREATMENT ALLOCATION; VARIANCE;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 70449372333     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.3710     Document Type: Article

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