Optimized response-adaptive clinical trials : sequential treatment allocation based on Markov decision problems / Thomas Ondra.

Two-armed response-adaptive clinical trials are modelled as Markov decision problems to pursue two overriding objectives: Firstly, to identify the superior treatment at the end of the trial and, secondly, to keep the number of patients receiving the inferior treatment small. Such clinical trial desi...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via Springer)
Main Author:	On, Thomas (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wiesbaden : Springer Spektrum, 2015.
Series:	BestMasters.
Subjects:	Clinical trials > Statistical methods. Markov processes.