Bandit Strategies for Ethical Sequential Allocation,
Abstract
The problem of allocating patients in a two treatment clinical trial with dichotomous response is considered. The trial goal is to determine the better treatment while incurring as few patient losses as possible. Several allocation rules are compared and it is found that bandit strategies perform well on both criteria in that they achieve nearly optimal power while keeping expected trial failures nearly minimal. The rules are also evaluated according to their computational complexity.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1992
- Accession Number
- ADP007181
Entities
People
- Janis P. Hardwick
- Quentin F. Stout
Organizations
- University of Michigan