Interim monitoring of clinical trials: Decision theory, dynamic programming and optimal stopping

Kuwait Journal of Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 43-59

  Jennison, Christopher ^a   Turnbull, Bruce W ^b  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Operations Research and Information Engineering Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes decision problem; Clinical trial; Dynamic programming; Group sequential test; Optimal stopping

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904513484     PISSN: 23074116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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