Sequential monitoring of response-adaptive randomized clinical trials

Annals of Statistics

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2218-2241

  Zhu, Hongjian ^a   Hu, Feifang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic properties; Brownian process; Power; Response adaptive randomization; Sample size; Type I error

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955160919     PISSN: 00905364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/10-AOS796     Document Type: Article

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