Balancing Treatment Allocation over Continuous Covariates: A New Imbalance Measure for Minimization

In many clinical trials, it is important to balance treatment allocation over covariates. Although a great many papers have been published on balancing over discrete covariates, the procedures for continuous covariates have been less well studied. Traditionally, a continuous covariate usually needs...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yanqing Hu, Feifang Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:Journal of Probability and Statistics
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/842369