Multi-treatment optimal response-adaptive designs for phase III clinical trials

Journal of the Korean Statistical Society

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 33-44

  Biswas, Atanu ^a   Mandal, Saumen ^b   Bhattacharya, Rahul ^c  

^a INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

^c WEST BENGAL STATE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Failures; Optimality; Primary; Secondary; Sequential estimation; Urn models

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251599115     PISSN: 12263192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jkss.2010.04.004     Document Type: Article

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