Sequential procedures for comparing several medical treatments

DOI10.1080/07474949208836265MaRDI QIDQ4036033zbMATHOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors 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

clinical trialsbiasstopping timesstandard deviationapproximationsinverse Gaussian distributionerror probabilitiesSPRTsequential probability ratio testnormal processexpected successes lostBernoulli responsesestimators of treatment differencesfixed-sample procedurehighest probability of success

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Sequential statistical analysis (62L10) Optimal stopping in statistics (62L15)

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