An optimal response adaptive biased coin design with k heteroscedastic treatments

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 141, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 235-242

  Gwise, Thomas E ^a   Zhou, Jianhui ^b   Hu, Feifang ^b  

^a CENTER FOR DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Heteroscedasticity; K treatments; Response adaptive design

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956292808     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.06.013     Document Type: Article

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