Stochastic approximation with virtual observations for dose-finding on discrete levels

Biometrika

Volumn 97, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-121

  Cheung, Ying Kuen ^a   Elkind, Mitchell S V ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Continual re assessment method; Dichotomized data; Discrete barrier; Heteroscedasticity; Robust estimation; Semiparametric mean variance relationship

Indexed keywords

EID: 77249122114     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asp065     Document Type: Article

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