An Approach to the Conditional Error Rate Principle with Nuisance Parameters

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1039-1046

  Gutjahr, Georg ^a,b   Brannath, Werner ^a,b   Bauer, Peter ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive design; Branch and bound; Conditional error rate principle; Fisher's exact test; Linear semi infinite programming; Nuisance parameter

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING;

ADAPTIVE DESIGNS; BRANCH AND BOUNDS; CONDITIONAL ERROR RATE PRINCIPLE; CONDITIONAL ERROR RATES; ERROR CONTROL; ERROR-FUNCTION; FISHER EXACT TEST; LINEAR SEMI-INFINITE PROGRAMMING; NUISANCE PARAMETER; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS;

ERRORS;

ALGORITHM; DESIGN; ERROR ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 80052822446     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01507.x     Document Type: Article

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