Out-of-sequence placement of donor kidneys to aggressive transplant centers is more likely when the kidneys come from older, donation-after-circulatory death, and hypertensive donors.

Many organizations have departments that provide services to other departments. For example, a janitorial department delivers services to the rest of a company, including the production departments ...

In controlled clinical trials, each of several prognostic factors should be balanced across the trial arms. Traditional restricted randomization may be proved inadequate especially with small sample ...

As does Woodroofe, we consider a Bayesian sequential allocation between two treatments that incorporates a covariate. The goal is to maximize the total discounted expected reward from an infinite ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Since the idea of sequential allocation was first studied, in a version of what is now called the multi-armed bandit problem, the results of ...