Block response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials with binary endpoints

Pharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 341-346

  Magirr, Dominic ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptive designs; expected treatment failures; random permuted blocks; randomized play the winner rule; sequential maximum likelihood estimation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; PLAY THERAPY; RANDOMIZATION;

ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; HUMANS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RESEARCH DESIGN; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 79960814296     PISSN: 15391604     EISSN: 15391612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pst.471     Document Type: Article

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