Gittins indices and constrained allocation in clinical trials

DOI10.1093/BIOMET/78.1.101MaRDI QIDQ3971497zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors You-Gan Wang

Publication date 25 June 1992

Published in Biometrika (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/78.1.101

zbMATH Keywords

simulationsimulation resultsasymptotic optimalityerror probabilityadaptive allocation rulesnear optimalityGittins indicessequential clinical trialsone-stage modelsconstrained rules

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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