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>.
# S3 method for carseq
StrBCD.ui(path, folder = "StrBCD")the path in which a folder used to storage variables will be created.
name of the folder. If default, a folder named "StrBCD" will be created.
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.
See StrBCD.
See StrBCD for allocating patients with complete covariate data; See StrBCD.sim for allocating patients with covariate data generating mechanism.