9.2 Simple Randomization

As the simplest way of randomization, simple randomization fixes the assignment probabilities throughout the trial with no regard to historical allocation and response information. Nevertheless, the assignment probabilities can all be equal or different across treatment arms. For a trial with k treatments, each trial participant is simply assigned with probability 1 slash k to one of the k arms under equal randomization. If a certain ...

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