Play-the-winner rule and adaptive designs of clinical trials.
In this paper, we study the relationships between regular A-optimal spring balance weighing designs and regular A-optimal chemical balance weighing designs. We give the basic relation between these designs in the case where the errors are uncorrelated and they have different variances. We give some examples of methods of construction of such designs.
This paper describes a set of programs that provide researchers with restricted effect estimations in unbalanced factorial models when several weighing systems are imposed upon those models. The main program performing such an analysis is known as REUFM, and is written in APL⊗PLUS for IBM/PC microcomputers. An example is given in order to ilustrate the programs.
In this paper we develop the theory of spring balance weighing designs with non-positive correlated errors for that the lower bound of the variance of estimated total weight is attained.
The paper considers the problem of consistent variable selection in parametic models with the use of stepdown multiple hypothesis procedures. Our approach completes the results of Bunea et al. [J. Statist. Plann. Inference 136 (2006)]. A simulation study supports the results obtained.
In this paper sign and Wilcoxon tests for testing the null hypothesis of quadratic regression versus the alternative, cubic regression are proposed. It is shown that in the case of a simple design consisting of multiple Y observations at each of the four levels of x, the proposed tests perform reasonably well as compared to their parametric competitors, while in the case of a general design consisting of a large number of levels of x, the loss in Pitman efficiency is considerable. However their...