Sequential procedures for comparing several medical treatments

DOI10.1080/07474949208836265zbMath0764.62092WikidataQ126242633 ScholiaQ126242633MaRDI QIDQ4036033

John Bather, D. Stephen Coad

Publication date: 16 May 1993

Published in: Sequential Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/07474949208836265

zbMATH Keywords

normal process; approximations; inverse Gaussian distribution; clinical trials; bias; stopping times; standard deviation; error probabilities; SPRT; sequential probability ratio test; expected successes lost; Bernoulli responses; estimators of treatment differences; fixed-sample procedure; highest probability of success

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P10: Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis

62L10: Sequential statistical analysis

62L15: Optimal stopping in statistics

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