TY - BOOK AU - Baldi Antognini,Alessandro AU - Giovagnoli,Alessandra TI - Adaptive designs for sequential treatment allocation T2 - Chapman & Hall/CRC Biostatistics Series SN - 9781466505759 (hardback : alk. paper) U1 - 000SA.08 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Boca Raton PB - CRC Press KW - Adaptive sampling (Statistics) N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 1. Fundamentals and preliminary results -- 2. Randomization procedures that are functions of the past allocations -- 3. Randomization procedures that depend on the responses -- 4. Multipurpose adaptive designs : step-by-step procedures -- 5. Multipurpose adaptive designs : constrained and combined optimality -- 6. Randomization procedures that depend on the covariates -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index N2 - Adaptive Designs for Sequential Treatment Allocation presents a rigorous theoretical treatment of the results and mathematical foundation of adaptive design theory. The book focuses on designing sequential randomized experiments to compare two or more treatments incorporating information accrued along the way. ER -