A new response-adaptive design for continuous treatment responses for phase III clinical trials

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 2256-2265

  Bandyopadhyay, Uttam ^a   Biswas, Atanu ^b   Bhattacharya, Rahul ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALCUTTA   (India)

^b INDIAN STATISTICAL INSTITUTE   (India)

^c WEST BENGAL STATE UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Ethics; Optimality; Response adaptive procedure

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952246820     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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