Balance and randomness in sequential clinical trials: The dominant biased coin design

Pharmaceutical Statistics

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 119-127

  Antognini, Alessandro Baldi ^a   Zagoraiou, Maroussa ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALABRIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

admissibility; balance; loss of information; predictability; selection bias

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIASED COIN DESIGN; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); COMPARATIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZATION; SELECTION BIAS; SIMULATION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL BIAS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HUMANS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RESEARCH DESIGN;

EID: 84896702675     PISSN: 15391604     EISSN: 15391612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pst.1607     Document Type: Article

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