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creators_name: Crimaldi, Irene
creators_name: Leisen, Fabrizio
creators_id: irene.crimaldi@imtlucca.it
creators_id: 
title: Asymptotic results for a generalized Pólya urn with “multi-updating” and applications to clinical trials
ispublished: pub
subjects: HA
subjects: QA
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
keywords: Almost sure conditional convergence, Clinical trials, Conditionally identically distributed sequences, Stable convergence, Urn models
abstract: In this article, a new Pólya urn model is introduced and studied; in particular, a strong law of large numbers and two central limit theorems are proved. This urn generalizes a model studied in Berti et al. (2004), May et al. (2005), and in Crimaldi (2007), and it has natural applications in clinical trials. Indeed, the model includes both delayed and missing (or null) responses. Moreover, a connection with the conditional identity in distribution of Berti et al. (2004) is given.
date: 2008
date_type: published
publication: Communications in statistics - theory and methods
volume: 37
number: 17
publisher: Taylor & Francis
pagerange: 2777-2794
id_number: doi:10.1080/03610920802001888
refereed: TRUE
issn: 0361-0926
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03610920802001888
citation:   Crimaldi, Irene and Leisen, Fabrizio  Asymptotic results for a generalized Pólya urn with “multi-updating” and applications to clinical trials.  Communications in statistics - theory and methods, 37 (17).  pp. 2777-2794.  ISSN 0361-0926      (2008)