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StrBCD.ui: Command-line User Interface Using Shao's Method

Description

A call to the user-interface function used to allocate patients to one of two treatments using Shao's method proposed by Shao J, Yu X, Zhong B (2010) <doi:10.1093/biomet/asq014>.

Usage

StrBCD.ui(path, folder = "StrBCD")

Value

It returns an object of class

"carseq".

The function print is used to obtain results. The generic accessor functions assignment, covariate, cov_num, cov_profile and others extract various useful features of the value returned by StrBCD.ui.

Arguments

path

the path in which a folder used to storage variables will be created.

folder

name of the folder. If default, a folder named "StrBCD" will be created.

Details

See StrBCD.

References

Ma W, Ye X, Tu F, Hu F. carat: Covariate-Adaptive Randomization for Clinical Trials[J]. Journal of Statistical Software, 2023, 107(2): 1-47.

Shao J, Yu X, Zhong B. A theory for testing hypotheses under covariate-adaptive randomization[J]. Biometrika, 2010, 97(2): 347-360.

See Also

See StrBCD for allocating patients with complete covariate data; See StrBCD.sim for allocating patients with covariate data generating mechanism.