Optimal adaptive generalized Polya urn design for multi-arm clinical trials

Ao Yuan and Gen Xiang Chai

Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2008, vol. 99, issue 1, 1-24

Abstract: A class of optimal adaptive multi-arm clinical trial designs is proposed based on an extended generalized Polya urn (GPU) model. The design is applicable to both the qualitative and quantitative responses and achieves, asymptotically, some pre-specified optimality criterion. Such criterion is specified by a functional of the response distributions and is implemented through the relationship between the design matrix and its first eigenvector. The asymptotic properties of the design are studied using the existing methods on GPU. Some examples for commonly used clinical designs are given as illustration.

Keywords: Generalized; Polya; urn; Martingale; Multi-arm; clinical; trial; Optimality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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