Some Properties of the Randomized Play the Winner Rule
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In clinical trials with extreme outcomes, it is ethically desirable to treat as many trial patients as possible with the superior treatment. Adaptive designs seek to achieve this goal. One such design is known as the randomized play the winner rule which has been applied in some real clinical trials. In this paper we demonstrate some interesting and desirable properties of the randomized play the winner rule.
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تاریخ انتشار 2012