Preserving the allocation ratio at every allocation with biased coin randomization and minimization in studies with unequal allocation

Statistics in Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 701-723

  Kuznetsova, Olga M ^a   Tymofyeyev, Yevgen ^b  

^a MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b JOHNSON AND JOHNSON PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Biased coin randomization; Covariate adaptive allocation; Minimization; Randomization test; Unequal allocation

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION RATIO PRESERVING BIASED COIN MINIMIZATION; ALLOCATION RATIO PRESERVING BIASED COIN RANDOMIZATION; ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CONTROLLED STUDY; LEARNING ALGORITHM; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PARAMETRIC TEST; PROBABILITY; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; PROCESS MODEL; RANDOMIZATION; RESEARCH SUBJECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STUDY DESIGN; SYSTEMATIC ERROR;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84858284094     PISSN: 02776715     EISSN: 10970258     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/sim.4447     Document Type: Article

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