Sufficient conditions are established for the locally D$-optimal design for a nonlinear model to have a minimal number of support points. The conditions are applied to obtain locally D-optimal designs for a one-compartment pharmacokinetic model and a Poisson regression model. Copyright 2009,...

To evaluate the biological efficacy of a treatment in a randomized clinical trial, one needs to compare patients in the treatment arm who actually received treatment with the subgroup of patients in the control arm who would have received treatment had they been randomized into the treatment...