Generalized method for adaptive randomization in clinical trials

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 922-934

  Russell, D ^a   Hoare, Z S J ^a   Whitaker, Rh ^a   Whitaker, C J ^a   Russell, I T ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic adaptive; Randomization; Treatment allocation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DYNAMIC RANDOMIZATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STRATIFIED SAMPLE; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 79953735620     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4175     Document Type: Article

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