Brick tunnel randomization for unequal allocation to two or more treatment groups

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 812-824

  Kuznetsova, Olga M ^a   Tymofyeyev, Yevgen ^a  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained randomization; Large block size; Maximal procedure; Permuted block randomization; Unequal allocation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRICK TUNNEL RANDOMIZATION; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; STUDY DESIGN;

BIOSTATISTICS; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 79953018016     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4167     Document Type: Article

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