Adaptive designs for sequential treatment allocation. (2015)
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- Book
- Title:
- Adaptive designs for sequential treatment allocation. (2015)
- Main Title:
- Adaptive designs for sequential treatment allocation
- Further Information:
- Note: Alessandro Baldi Antognini, Alessandra Giovagnoli.
- Authors:
- Antognini, Alessandro Baldi
Giovagnoli, Alessandra - Contents:
- Fundamentals and preliminary results; Contents of this chapter; Some notation; Statistical models; The likelihood and Fisher’s information; Inference: Conditional on the design or unconditional?; Inferential optimality of an adaptive design; Most informative targets; Asymptotic inference; Some examples of convergence of designs; The class of Markovian designs; Some examples of Markovian designs; Sequential designs and stopping rules; Some practical issues in the implementation of adaptive designs; Simulating adaptive designs Randomization procedures that are functions of the past allocations; Introduction; Randomization and balance as conflicting demands; Indicators of balance and randomness; Classic biased coin designs; Urn designs; Some extensions of the biased coin and urn designs of this chapter Randomization procedures that depend on the responses ; Introduction; A more general model for the response; The sequential maximum likelihood design; The doubly adaptive biased coin design; The efficient randomized adaptive design; The up-and-down design Multipurpose adaptive designs: step-by-step procedures; Introduction; Designs of play-the-winner and drop-the-loser type; Bandyopadhyay and Biswas’ link-based design; The compound probability approach; Randomly reinforced urn designs; Asymptotic inference; Extensions of the step-by-step strategies to the case of several treatments Multipurpose adaptive designs: Constrained and combined optimality; Introduction; Optimality ofFundamentals and preliminary results; Contents of this chapter; Some notation; Statistical models; The likelihood and Fisher’s information; Inference: Conditional on the design or unconditional?; Inferential optimality of an adaptive design; Most informative targets; Asymptotic inference; Some examples of convergence of designs; The class of Markovian designs; Some examples of Markovian designs; Sequential designs and stopping rules; Some practical issues in the implementation of adaptive designs; Simulating adaptive designs Randomization procedures that are functions of the past allocations; Introduction; Randomization and balance as conflicting demands; Indicators of balance and randomness; Classic biased coin designs; Urn designs; Some extensions of the biased coin and urn designs of this chapter Randomization procedures that depend on the responses ; Introduction; A more general model for the response; The sequential maximum likelihood design; The doubly adaptive biased coin design; The efficient randomized adaptive design; The up-and-down design Multipurpose adaptive designs: step-by-step procedures; Introduction; Designs of play-the-winner and drop-the-loser type; Bandyopadhyay and Biswas’ link-based design; The compound probability approach; Randomly reinforced urn designs; Asymptotic inference; Extensions of the step-by-step strategies to the case of several treatments Multipurpose adaptive designs: Constrained and combined optimality; Introduction; Optimality of target allocations for two treatments; Non-admissible targets; Multi-objective optimal targets: The constrained optimization approach; Multi-objective optimal targets: The combined optimization approach; The case of several treatments Randomization procedures that depend on the covariates; Introduction; Inferentially optimal target allocations in the presence of covariates; Covariate-adaptive randomization; Covariate-adjusted response-adaptive designs ; Combined optimal designs with covariates; Other adaptive designs with covariates; Some conclusions Appendix A: Optimal designs Appendix B: Bayesian approaches in adaptive designs Bibliography Subject Index … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 519.54
Sequential analysis - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781466505766
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781466505759
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