Fractional Brownian motion and long term clinical trial recruitment

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 141, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1783-1788

  Zhang, Qiang ^a   Lai, Dejian ^b,c  

^a AMERICAN COLLEGE OF RADIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JIANGXI UNIVERSITY OF FINANCE AND ECONOMICS   (China)

Author keywords

Brownian motion; Fractional Brownian motion; Prediction; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

EID: 78751704061     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.11.028     Document Type: Article

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