Discussion on “A Hybrid Selection and Testing Procedure with Curtailment for Comparative Clinical Trials” by Elena M. Buzaianu and Pinyuen Chen

REFERENCES

• Bather , J. A. and Coad , D. S. ( 1992 ). Sequential Procedures for Comparing Several Medical Treatments , Sequential Analysis 11 : 339 – 376 .
   Google Scholar
• Biswas , A. ( 2006 ). Contribution of Milton Sobel in Selection Problem Following Ethical Allocation , Sequential Analysis 25 : 167 – 178 .
   Google Scholar
• Buzaianu , E. M. and Chen , P. ( 2005 ). On Selecting Among Treatments with Binomial Outcomes , Communications in Statistics—Theory & Methods 34 : 1247 – 1264 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Buzaianu , E. M. and Chen , P. ( 2008 ). Curtailment Procedure for Selecting Among Binomial Populations , Communications in Statistics—Theory & Methods 37 : 1085 – 1102 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Coad , D. S. and Ivanova , A. ( 2005 ). Sequential Urn Designs with Elimination for Comparing K ≥ 3 Treatments , Statistics in Medicine 24 : 1995 – 2009 .
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cohen , A. and Sackrowitz , H. B. ( 1989 ). Two Stage Conditionally Unbiased Estimators of the Selected Mean , Statistics & Probability Letters 8 : 273 – 278 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Kulkarni , R. V. and Jennison , C. (1986). Optimal Properties of the Bechhofer–Kulkarni Bernoulli Selection Procedure, Annals of Statistics 14: 298–314.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stallard , N. and Todd , S. ( 2007 ). Statistical Methods for Combining Clinical Trials Phases II and III , in Advances in Statistical Methods for the Health Sciences , Auget , J.-L. , Balakrishnan , N. , Mesbah , M. and Molenberghs , G. eds., pp. 401 – 417 , Boston : Birkhäuser .
   Google Scholar
• Thall , P. F. , Simon , R. and Ellenberg , S. S. ( 1988 ). Two-Stage Selection and Testing Designs for Comparative Clinical Trials , Biometrika 75 : 303 – 310 .
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Recommended by Nitis Mukhopadhyay
   Google Scholar