The covariate-adaptive biased coin design for balancing clinical trials in the presence of prognostic factors

Biometrika

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 519-535

  Baldi Antognini, A ^a   Zagoraiou, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balance; Covariate adaptive design; Efron's biased coin; Markov chains; Stratified randomization

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052292766     PISSN: 00063444     EISSN: 14643510     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biomet/asr021     Document Type: Article

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