title: Combining treatment selection and definitive testing.
abstract: This is a discussion of the following two papers appearing in this special issue on adaptive designs: 'An adaptive hierarchical test procedure for selecting safe and efficient treatments' by Franz König, Peter Bauer and Werner Brannath, and 'An adaptive two-stage design with treatment selection using the conditional error function approach' by Jixian Wang.
authors.affiliation: Biostatistics Research Branch, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 6700A Rockledge Drive, Bethesda, MD, USA. proscham@niaid.nih.gov
authors.forename: Michael A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Proschan
authors.forename: Sally A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Hunsberger
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012107:Research Design / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*