The Theory of Response-Adaptive Randomization in Clinical Trials

The Theory of Response-Adaptive Randomization in Clinical Trials

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 1-218

  Hu, Feifang ^a   Rosenberger, William F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES; STUDENTS;

ADAPTIVE ALLOCATION; ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITY; ASYMPTOTIC PROPERTIES; ASYMPTOTIC VARIANCE; MATHEMATICAL FRAMEWORKS; PATIENT POPULATION; RANDOMIZATION PROCEDURE; SEQUENTIAL ESTIMATION;

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 84947338325     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/047005588X     Document Type: Book

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