Efficient adaptive randomization and stopping rules in multi-arm clinical trials for testing a new treatment

Sequential Analysis

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 441-457

  Lai, Tze Leung ^a   Liao, Olivia Yueh Wen ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive allocation; Information bound; Interim analysis; Internal pilot; Multi armed bandit theory; Multiple treatment

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALLOCATION; INFORMATION BOUND; INTERIM ANALYSIS; INTERNAL PILOT; MULTI ARMED BANDIT; MULTIPLE TREATMENT;

DRUG DOSAGE; EXPERIMENTS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

MEDICAL APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84874340514     PISSN: 07474946     EISSN: 15324176     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07474946.2012.719433     Document Type: Article

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