On the second role of the random element in minimization

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 587-588

  Kuznetsova, Olga M ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Covariate adaptive allocation; Minimization; Random element; Randomization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; RANDOMIZATION;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SELECTION BIAS;

EID: 77957966080     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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3. Kuznetsova O.M., Troxell J.K. Maximum imbalance in treatment assignments in a clinical trial that uses the minimization allocation procedure. 2004 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Biopharmaceutical Section [CD- ROM], Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association 2004.