On the Allocation of Treatments in Sequential Medical Trials

DOI10.2307/1402870MaRDI QIDQ3711547zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors John Bather

Publication date 1985

Published in International Statistical Review / Revue Internationale de Statistique (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/1402870

zbMATH Keywords

clinical trialsdecision theoryexpected sample sizeerror probabilitiesallocation rulessequential probability ratio testbinomial probabilitiesexpected successes lostrandomized allocationadaptive sequential schemefixed sample size schemesampling pairs of patients

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Sequential statistical design (62L05) Sequential statistical analysis (62L10)

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