Balancing continuous covariates based on Kernel densities

Contemporary Clinical Trials

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 262-269

  Ma, Zhenjun ^a,b   Hu, Feifang ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Baseline covariate; Covariate adaptive design; Imbalance measure; Minimization; Randomized clinical trial; Stratified permuted block design

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); DENSITY; KERNEL DENSITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; RANDOMIZATION; SIMULATION; STRATIFICATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SELECTION BIAS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84872400704     PISSN: 15517144     EISSN: 15592030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cct.2012.12.004     Document Type: Article

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