Adaptive Designs for Sequential Treatment Allocation

Alessandro Baldi Antognini is a full professor of statistics at the University of Bologna. His main research interests include optimal design theory, sequential methods, and applied probability with applications to industrial experiments and biostatistics.Alessandra Giovagnoli, now retired, was a full professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Bologna. Her main research area is the design of experiments, particularly sequential experiments. She is also interested in stochastic order relations and biomedical and technological applications of statistics. She served on the editorial board of Biometrika and was associate editor of SMA, the journal of the Italian Statistical Society. She is on the board of Model-Oriented Data Analysis and Optimum Design (MODA), an international statistical association that promotes research in the area of experimental designs.

"I fully endorse views of the authors that researchers working in the area of adaptive designs may find this book a useful reference. Further, since this book includes a fair number of examples, teachers of graduate-level courses on designs may also find this book useful." -Sada Nand Dwivedi, International Society for Clinical Biostatistics "... the book illustrates theoretical properties of adaptive designs so that researchers can choose the best design for the experiment, covering impressively diverse approaches. ... I find the book quite appealing in that the authors believed on the theoretical properties of the designs and mathematical foundations more than how and what of adaptive designs ... highly useful as a reference book in a graduate-level course on designs with nearly exhaustive approaches to adaptive design construction." -Biometrics, December 2015

• Fundamentals and Preliminary Results. Randomized Procedures That Are Functions of the Past Allocations. Randomized Procedures That Depend on the Responses. Multipurpose Adaptive Designs: Step-by-Step Procedures. Multipurpose Adaptive Designs: Constrained and Combined Optimality. Randomized Procedures That Depend on the Covariates. Appendices. Bibliography. Index.