Adaptive designs for dose response studies

This thesis is motivated by an adaptive design which was developed to inoculate healthy volunteers with nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae. The goal was to estimate the doses at which 50% (HCD50) and 90% (HCD90) of subjects became colonized. A fifteen-subject study was designed in two stages, with t...

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Main Author: Chang, Yu-Hui Huang
Other Authors: Chaloner, Kathryn
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of Iowa 2010
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Online Access:https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/652
https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1837&context=etd